RE: Adobe adds product activation

Subject: RE: Adobe adds product activation
From: Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:35:06 -0700 (PDT)



--- Watson Laughton <WLaughton -at- orphan -dot- com> wrote:
> When Lotus 1-2-3 was the only game in town, the had a piracy-prevention
> "tool" that was far less onerous than the activation procedure now required
> by msft et al. if you wanted to use a personal copy of 1-2-3 on your
> computer at work and continue at home (or the equivalent with a laptop), you
> had to "uninstall" 1-2-3 from one computer and re-install it on the other
> computer. When Excel, Quattro Pro, and other spreadsheets showed up on the
> scene, Lotus magically dropped the copy protection scheme. Now, for all
> intents and purposes, most users have no choice in what general business
> software they use (either their company decides on msft, or they have to be
> perfectly compatible with msft for outside distribution). No choice? No
> problem!

There is PLENTY of choices. We, as a society, are awash with choices.

Companies can chose any technology they want. Clearly there are other factors,
besides user inconvenience that motivates decision makers.

Incidentally, corporate-versions of Microsoft products do not require
activation.

Andrew Plato

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