>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:27:34 -0400
>From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>At 07:56 PM 7/10/02 +0200, Peter Castine wrote:
[schnipp]
>>I prefer Cycling 74's practice
[schnipp]
>
>Why do you love these fascist companies?
More English 101: "prefer" is not synonymous with "love".
Ple
At 07:56 PM 7/10/02 +0200, Peter Castine wrote:
>To those wishing to cite Coda as a counter-example: for years Finale had
>a very effective copy-protection in the form of its manual. Not
>unbreakable, but inconvenient for pirates while convenient and even
>helpful for license-holders. The CD fo
>If you want a closer analogy, it's as if they hold
>the keys to my house, and every time I add a room or rebuild the bedroom or
>even replace the water pump -- having done that a few days ago, I'm a bit
>touchy about it :) -- I have to call up the original contrator to get new
>keys to my house,
You have mistaken my tone, David: I agree with you!! This number
ballet is fraught with dangers.
(And no, I don't believe you can still use a floppy to do this)
Alan Smith
On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 11:29 AM, David H. Bailey wrote:
> Okay, so the exact mechanism isn't a floppy all the
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:31:11 -0400
>From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> When passenger screening
>was first instituted at airports, back in the '70s, I swore I'd never
>fly again. Even wrote my congressman. Guess how many months that
>res
At 08:31 AM 7/10/02 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote:
>it must
>be pointed out that the objection applies with equal force to every
>manner of lock or barrier whatsoever: What!? I can't go through this
>door without securing your approval in advance and obtaining the
>proper "key"? You're treating
> >I have always been philosophically opposed to protection because it
treats
> >me as if I were a criminal -- guilty until proven innocent by the my ID
> While there is nothing inherently wrong w. this philosophy, it must
> be pointed out that the objection applies with equal force to every
> m
>
>I have always been philosophically opposed to protection because it treats
>me as if I were a criminal -- guilty until proven innocent by the my ID
>papers. My government can't do this, so why should some collection of
>corporate dumbbunnies get to do it?
>...
>Cheerfully,
>Dennis
>
While ther
Alan Smith wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 10:52 PM, David H. Bailey wrote:
>
>> And when your computer crashes and you haven't "removed" the enabling
>> code, do they simply give you an additional code to activate it on
>> your new machine, no questions asked? And how about using
On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 10:52 PM, David H. Bailey wrote:
> And when your computer crashes and you haven't "removed" the enabling
> code, do they simply give you an additional code to activate it on your
> new machine, no questions asked? And how about using it on a notebook
> AND a desk
At 08:07 AM 7/10/02 +0900, you wrote:
>My impression is that they are very easy
>to work with.
And when they are out of business? They will be, of course. Then where will
your years of work be? And, as I said, what about your archivists,
correspondents, or clients?
You're a composer; I'm a compo
At 06:30 AM 7/10/02 +0900, Richard Walker wrote:
>What's the big deal? You go to their web page, input your information and
>get the magic number that opens up the program. It's not that onerous, and
>it's not nearly as ugly, say, as the dongle that Logic makes you attach
>before it will work.
I
What's the big deal? You go to their web page, input your information and
get the magic number that opens up the program. It's not that onerous, and
it's not nearly as ugly, say, as the dongle that Logic makes you attach
before it will work. Granted, you can't easily give the software to all of
yo
At 01:44 PM 7/9/02 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote:
>Anybody else want to deal with their piracy-prevention scheme? Not me!
> No matter what the price!
Absolutely never.
Dennis
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on 7/9/02 12:44 PM, David H. Bailey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anybody else want to deal with their piracy-prevention scheme? Not me!
> No matter what the price!
I completely agree. That's a complete showstopper!
Doug
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Anybody else want to deal with their piracy-prevention scheme? Not me!
No matter what the price!
William Roberts wrote:
> Apropos of the discussion earlier today about the dreaded "S" word, has anybody
>heard about their new cross-grade offer? Cross-grade from any version of Finale or
>
Apropos of the discussion earlier today about the dreaded "S" word, has anybody heard
about their new cross-grade offer? Cross-grade from any version of Finale or Encore
to Sibelius for $179... pretty keen deal. My dealer told me about this yesterday.
I've not upgraded to Finale 2003 yet, an
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