OT: Trial software / expiration (was Re: OT: Edge on Linux - Issue.)

[Rkreiss@verizon.net]]

Top post:

As far as I know, data, be it from a database program or a file with text, belong to the person creating it.  It doesn't belong to the company which created the software to create it.

I came across this problem years ago when working for a softwsre company dealing with the apparel company.  They leased the hardware and were financing through the company I was working for.  We were advised that we could repossess our software but not the data.

So, MS can not stop someone from seeing the files created with their pre-loaded unlicensed software.  

It is possible, but I doubt they would go this extreme, that the file, when atempted to be opened by the expired software, is somehow rendered unmodifiable.  Or the could change it to a read only document.

Another way to test rthis would be to move the document to a computer with a working version of Word to see if it could be edited.

Richard Kreiss     

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 8:15 PM
To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: OT: Trial software / expiration (was Re: OT: Edge on Linux -	Issue.)

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> ...
>> They're the students own computers, and they use the trial MS-Office because 
>> it came pre-loaded on their computer and they don't know any better.
>>
>> And Laura would tell them about OOo, and show how they can open two windows 
>> side-by-side and re-type the paper.  Not the ideal solution, but the 
>> software is free, and they can hire the dorm's fastest typist for a slice of 
>> pizza and a soda.
> 
> Is there something about the files created by the trial MS-Office
> that prevents them from being read by OpenOffice.org?  I haven't
> found any MS-Word files that aren't readable on OOo, even the new
> ``standard'' .docx files.  My wife is running a somewhat out of
> date version of MS-Office for Mac which can't handle some Word
> documents which work fine in OOo.

Laura could give you the details, as I haven't personally seen this "in 
action".  Until recently, OOo couldn't read the new .docx file format, 
though the current versions do.

I suppose I could actually activate the trial version that came with my 
system a couple of years ago, just to see what happens when it expires, but 
I don't see any real need to do so.

-- 
Kenneth Brody
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