OT: Edge on Linux - Issue.

[Kenneth Brody]

John Esak wrote:
> Well, I hope I change this thread a little to levity by just saying...
> 
> 
>> We see this most often when people install our product in 60 day demo
> mode, and it prints the date the product will stop working during
> installation
>> (and waits for an approval), and then every day in printed and emailed
> backup reports when the 60 day period is about to end (and when they run
>> edgemenu), but when they call us after the demo has run out for an
> activation it is an emergency. There's only so much a company can do. 
> 
> Okay Tom, I know who you're talking about!!  :-)  Seriously, whether he is
> or isn't. I can verify that I have done this exact thing to them more than
> once.
[...]

For the past four years, Laura has had a contract at a local college for 
several weeks at the start of each semester, helping students get their 
computers on the school's network, including cleaning off infections.  There 
have been quite a few instances of a student coming in in a panic because 
their trial edition of MS Office has suddenly stopped working, and the paper 
they've been working on is due tomorrow.  Apparently, the daily "I'm going 
to stop working in X days" message that they've been getting for quite some 
time was just another popup window which got dismissed without being read. 
And when the trial MS Office ends, you can't do anything with your documents 
beyond displaying them on the screen.  (No editing, no copying, no 
cut-and-paste, no printing, etc. etc. etc.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody