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<stephen -dot- arrants -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote in message news:216481 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
> Why do you call it a nightmare? It isn't as if they have to give a blood
sample. The process is almost automatic, there are clear, well-written
instructions, and it works for the vast, vast majority of users.
I've given who knows how much blood over the years one (or more) vial at a
time. Except for the very rare incompetent phlebotomist, I've found the
experience less painful overall than software product activation.
>
> > No doubt MS will eventually refuse to issue activations on their old
> > products. "Old" meaning you are on a 2-3 year upgrade cycle. It
absolutely
> > kills MS that Win98/Office97 still works.
>
> And what's your source for this? At some point a user has to accept that a
company will end support for a product. I'd love to still be using Electric
Pencil on the TRS-80, but that's not possible. A company can invest in
support a swindling number of users of old products or invest in improving a
product line.
>
You would? I did some of my earliest programming on a TRS-80 Model II, yet
I'm happy I no longer have to type things such as
450 GOTO 1020
when I want to do some programming.
>
> > And it's not about theft or piracy, that's a red herring.. Product
> > activation is enough of a pain even if you are using a legal copy on one
PC.
>
> if it isn't about theft or piracy, then what *is* it about?
>
It's about the default assumption that anyone with a copy of the product is
a thief or a pirate until proven otherwise.
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