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Vote with your money (none / 0) (#6)
by MycroftMkIV on Thu Aug 19, 2004 at 11:06:10 AM PDT

The battle over copy protection has been going on since Bill was a pup. Lotus tried it in the DOS days, and many other companies tried it with both software and hardware (dongles). We told them what to do with their copy protection, and backed it up by not buying their products.

With the advent of the Internet, those companies now have a new way they never tried to implement copy protection. If anything, it is more annoying than the old methods they've tried. So why should you put up with it? Use another product and tell them why you are not purchasing theirs.

Copy protection serves no useful purpose for the purchasers of software. It only serves to annoy them. I'm glad I use an open source operating system, so I no longer have to put up with this nonsense.

Mike



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