a_super_hero opened this issue on Apr 25, 2001 ยท 25 posts
Anthony Appleyard posted Thu, 26 April 2001 at 10:08 AM
Possibly. Multi-installation has been around since Commodore Pets were the newest thing, and I see no point trying to stop it now except to waste ammunition and make work for the field hospital. We don't want such things as the baseball-type "three loadings from that copy of Poser and then it is dead" or the nuisance inflicted on people who don't have internet access and are overseas. Or refusing to run if the system configuration changes in case it is a different computer. What happens if I install it on my desktop and my laptop, and I never let anyone else use either, so the "one user" rule is still satisfied? And, as I wrote elsewhere, a laptop's configuration often changes several times a week: zipdrive connected or not, printer connected or not, external mouse connected or not. And if I buy a new laptop, my Poser would be up the swanny and I would have to buy another copy of it and the delay and nuisance finding a shop which was selling it then. Oh well, put up with Poser 4.0.3's bugs and limitations forever, or "the trail and the packhorse again", write my own program to do Poser's job, same as I found no 2D graphics displayer / editer satisfactory and so I wrote my own, and before that I wrote my own Emacs-type DOS text editor called AAEMACS.