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by Anonymous User on Tue Aug 17, 2004 at 01:46:32 PM PDT

And then we wonder why companies feel the need to protect themselves. The "work around" you describe is unethical and unfair. All system administrators with more than a dozen machines know this one, but also know how to do it right. It's because of people like you that we even have these discussions. Perhaps if the home users, who outnumber the corporate users, sincerely tried to work with their software vendors they could get better results and the companies would not have to do some of the things they do to stay in business. Remember, they are protecting themselves from us as much as we are protecting ourselves from them. I don't understand the pervasive mentality that all these companies are bad and out to get you. Very few are. Most are just trying to make a living - just like everyone else. I'll bet that you "trust" the guy who works on your car, and you're at least as likely to get ripped off there as from a utility vendor.

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