This kind of behaviour just sucks (pardon my French). I bought some antivirus SW and later discovered it stopped working after a year and they demanded a renewal fee. I refused and filed a Consumer Complaint against the company, because they failed to disclose the renewal cost nonsense on the box.
A similar thing happened with an early schematic CAD program (Futurenet). They wanted something like $1000 per year for SW "maintenance". I never wanted "upgrades" or new bells and whistles. I just wanted what I bought to work and keep working. Both of these are deceptive trade practices, IMO. Now, apparently, that concept has moved into hardware. IMO, it's just a ripoff. FWIW, -John ================= [snip] > What would be a bigger problem is availability of device drivers and > such, especially if the OS has some sort of inherent life limit built > into it (e.g. a digital rights management feature like Windows Genuine > Advantage.. can't connect to the server, and your scope stops working) [snip] _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
