RE: Making a computer run on only one computer

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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.

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