Re: Adobe adds product activation

["Steve Arrants" <stephena -at- compbear -dot- com>]

> Activation isn't about piracy; it's about forced upgrades. No doubt 
there
> will come a time when home users buy a new PC and try to activate 
their old
> copy of SomethingXP, only to be told that activation codes are no 
longer
> available for that product.

You say this again and again, but where is the evidence for this?  
 
> MS and Adobe are selling mature applications. They have run out of new
> compelling features to add, so the only way they can keep you on the 
upgrade
> cycle is to forcibly expire their old products.

There comes a point in an application's "lifetime" when devoting 
resources to support or issue upgrades for that version aren't cost-
effective. It costs the manufacturer more time and money and resources 
to support something like Word 6 than they want to devote.

To expect a company to support a product for your lifetime is a little 
naive.  Otherwise some of us would still be driving '49 Hudsons.

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