OT: Edge on Linux - Issue.

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>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.)

Entrusting one's data to proprietary programs and binary data
format isn't the smartest thing in the world.  One of the best
things I've ever seen on this topic was written by a Peruvian
legislator in response to a letter from the local Microsoft rep.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/19/ms_in_peruvian_opensource_nightmare/

Bill
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