FP Technology

[Jay Ashworth]

---- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Kreiss" <rkreiss at gccconsulting.net>

> > Well, have to admire the tenacity I guess.
> > It's stupid, since it's causing your customers to opt for the wrong
> > side of "take
> > it or leave it", but hey it's a free country.
> 
> One thing to point out, most companies that release new versions stop
> selling the older version but support the older version for some
> period of time. A company can't keep developing updates to their program and
> then continue to sell the older version. That would be like an auto company
> coming out with a new updated model for 2011 and one expect them to
> continue to manufacturer the old model.

Yup.  But if *I* had a pre-"stupid-license-locking-system" version, I wouldn't
want to upgrade it either; been burned too many times; the false positive
rate on such systems is entirely unacceptable for people who have to get
real work done.

Cheers,
-- jra