Neb Okla said:
Are you employed? Would you object if someone stole the goods or services
you produce? Do you take measures to prevent that theft?
This is completely off topic. There is a difference between making a thief's
life difficult, and making that of your genuine users difficult. I happen to
be in the second category and, as such, I couldn't care less about M$ and
their wish to limit fraud. All I want is for the piece of software I bought
not to bug with requests for the CD every time I upgrade.
Sun, IBM, and Corel seem to think that you have the choice. Ask them all
about compatibility issues with their Office Suites. They all work fine.
When you think that there are already compatibility issues between the
different flavours of M$ Office, I really wonder how you can expect 100%
compatibility from different pieces of software.
From your use of the double space after a full point, I would think that you
have been around for quite some time. Yet, you don't seem to have learned
much from the computing business...
You paid for the software?
Yes.
I went to the MS Office 2003 Launch Event (free) and got it for free.
Since the software was available from MS for free, and you apparently missed
that opportunity, should you still be entitled to whine?
Are you being plain stupid here or what? Independent of where that event was
held, this doesn't mean that one can necessarily attend it. Sorry, but some
people have to work instead of wandering around at free events... Anyway,
most people have to pay for it, so that does entitle to whine if they feel
like it and whether you like it or not.
Ok, maybe YOU can't, but people seem to think they can. Check out the
open-source community.
I am perfectly aware of what is available around, thank you very much.
Otherwise, it has nothing to do with my (in)ability to write such a
software, but rather with the fact that your suggestion (write my own office
suite) is plain stupid. Just think about it for a minute and you will see.
If you have a better idea, you could always send it in to
(e-mail address removed) - maybe they'll drop the part of the anti-fraud you
don't like and replace it with a different method you're ok with.
Yeah, sure... From what I can tell, M$ doesn't seem to care that much about
one's comments... I have sent numerous reports following the crashing of M$
applications and I yet have to see anything from them proving me they are or
have been doing something about it. So again, you are being plain stupid or
simply trolling...
Still, if you don't delete the install files, you won't have a problem. And
if you keep a copy of the files somewhere on your network, you can use that
just as well.
Yes, I did realise that (from Milhouse) and that's all you should have
replied to me, instead of adding lots of crap to your message.
What's preventing you from those solutions?
Nothing, now that I have been told about it.
Ok, enough said. I have better things to do than replying to more nonsense.
