RE: Making a computer run on only one computer
- Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Aug 12, 2001
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> If your program is too much bother to use, or violates what > people expect to be able > to do with something they have bought and paid for, you'll get > lots of free (bad) publicity, and lose more sales than you gain. My company's re-install program is based on the hardware-based code scheme. I've not gotten one complaint from any customer regarding their having to get a code to reinstall. We made the process quick and simple. > Of course, Microsoft promises that you won't have to pay again 'if the > change is minor', but we all realize they could make new rules at any time. > Their promise isn't in writing. Besides, who believes Microsoft promises, > anyway? Besides that, you'll have to read them a 50-digit code, and then type in a 49-digit code in response. (Number may not be exact.) So what happens if you typo?! That's a pain in the sweet behind. > >No animals were hurt while writing this E-mail :) > > No, but billions and billions of innocent electrons were bounced around, > more or less at random, thus contributing to the entropy of the > universe as we know it, and hastening its eventual destruction. Bleak, Irv. Very bleak. But funny. <\<