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Symantec's DRM of Choice (none / 0) (#4)
by schda on Thu Oct 02, 2003 at 11:04:47 AM PDT

Someone suggested voting with our pocket books in an earlier response. Unfortunately, the big software companies of the world have been so successful that we now have limited choices. I know you want to keep the gripe column/website non-commercial, but I would love to know of other choices. Perhaps a listing of software types with fields to indicate price, method of actuation, method of copy protection, etc. would be appropriate. I for one am ready to vote with my wallet, but I have used Microsoft-Symantec-Intuit software for so many years that I have little or no knowledge of alternatives. I am frustrated enough that I would be willing to live with a little less software functionality and even a little higher price if I knew I could escape wasting time hassling the protection schemes being forced upon me and my IT people. It hardly seems fair that a company should have to pay the increased support costs to hassle the protection schemes. That is not value-added -- that is value substracted. Often my IT people have spent more time hassling these schemes than the product cost initially. Bottom line is that I want to break the "addiction" to these software companies, but I need to some help to do it.


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