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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
It used to be that MS Windows and Office, Photoshop, Illustrator and a few other programs had such ineffective security that you could swap CDs with these programs and an included key in text form, and install them on as many PCs as you could find. No longer, since security has been upgraded, and each software requires you to verify online (and will disable the SW if it is already registered to a small number of users).
So I suppose Switzerland considers Microsoft and Adobe to be criminal organizations for preventing its citizens to download and use their software without paying.
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Steve, I remember software from the early 1990's that had
NO copy protection. Anybody remember Windows 3.1? I think Word Perfect 5.2 didn't have any copy protection, either.
Explain to me why, having bought the software (or license, if you prefer) why I can't install it serially from machine A to machine B to machine C, if I scrap the prior machine? Still using the one license...
Nor is there any reason that I
have to upgrade my software. I may choose to, to get better features, but I don't have to.
That ineffectual copy protection allows me to do that. The phone home types (requiring activation) don't. I don't buy/use them,except under duress, until I can find an acceptable alternative.
Is that being a pirate? I paid Microsoft, what's the beef. If I prefer to use 15 year old operating system to save money and run old favorite software, that's my choice.
(I'm currently trying to get Windows ME (which I have a fully legitimate Disc and License) to run under Oracle VM. Then I can run it under Linux. Use Linux for modern software needs, and use my old Windows software as needed.)