[geeks] Jesus this guy could be me

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Sat Jan 18 13:59:51 CST 2003


My problem with activation is the software ability to de-activate the 
software whenever they choose... not the actual activation itself.  
It's that sort of parental oversight that I don't accept in software 
for any purpose.

Andrew

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 12:56  PM, Dan Sikorski wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 03:03, Chris Byrne wrote:
>> http://212.100.234.54/content/4/23777.html
>>
>> Except I still put up with muther#"$"$#% MicroSquish
>
> Ya know. For personal use, i don't see how the activation stuff is that
> big of a deal, really.  Yes, when i first heard about it, i disliked it
> as much as the next anti-MS bigot, but in the end it's not horrible.  I
> still think it's going an awful long way to prevent piracy, and it 
> still
> doesn't work, but, it's not the end of the world.


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