OpenEuphoria

Re: serialize software

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Nov 18, 2004
• 508 views

Ken Orr wrote:
> cklester asked:
> > Since when does anybody move software from computer to computer on such
> > a periodic basis as to make this intolerable?! Besides software pirates,
> > I mean.
> 
> I do.  Last year I had to replace my laptop twiece because they died.
> On my current one is on its second hardrive.  I've reinstalled Windows five 
> times in the last six months alone.  It always a bother to contact the 
> vendor of a software and try to convince them that I'm not a software 
> pirate and that my laptop DID get hit by lighting/infected by
> virus/spyware/etc.

Isn't it MORE of a bother to have a laptop die twice, lose a hard drive,
and reinstall Windows five times. Whose fault is that? Certainly not the
software vendor's...

My point remains... your situation is rare.

> The problem with this approach is that it assumes the user is thief until
> proven otherwise.

Putting a lock on something is a safety measure,
not a presumption of guilt... otherwise, you'd be offended by all locks.

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/