[olug] Why I no longer care about Disney.

[Jonathan Warren]

I don't really care what MS does.  Just means more linux users to me.  I hope them the best and I hope product activation 2 involves a name and address to associate with the product and unique key.

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:10:18AM -0500, William E. Kempf wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Walker" <linux_user at grax.com>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 5:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Why I no longer care about Disney.
> 
> 
> > With the software I am exposed to they don't even try.  Microsoft
> products,
> > Adobe products.  They just provide a key that you have to write on your cd
> > copy with magic marker to use that product.
> 
> That's a (lame) form of copy protection (and one that annoys the crap out of
> me, a legitimate owner of the software).  What purpose other then copy
> protection would such a key serve, hmm?  Modern MS products are going even
> further, with their "activation" concept. That's even more annoying, because
> it's not a one time and forget it annoyance.  Add hardware to your system
> and all your MS software is likely to need re-activation.
> 
> Bill Kempf
> 
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