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And what about when support is dropped..[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#22)
by Reziac on Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 12:50:46 PM PDT

...or the company goes under, and you still need that software and need it reactivated? Buying an upgrade is sometimes neither practical nor desirable, and being *forced* to do so is essentially extortion:

What if some bean-counter decides the best way toward higher revenues is to force everyone to upgrade by refusing to reactivate older versions, a la Intuit??

BTW I stopped upgrading my fave group of software when they went to activation -- and I'd bought a couple dozen versions before that, more because I wanted to than needed to. No more. :(
~REZ~
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