Nosfiratu opened this issue on Aug 30, 2002 ยท 222 posts
Ironbear posted Sat, 31 August 2002 at 11:19 AM
"What you are really saying IB is that you want it YOUR way. Period! " Bullshit. If you're reading that, then you're not reading what I typed, bud. That's about what I expected though... I have a personal interest in a company. Two of them, actually. And I'm friends with my clients. Still irrelevant: they pay me to make good decisions for them, if I don't they'll not only stop paying me, we won't be friends for long. In this case though - you are flat wrong: based on the concerns in this and other threads, it's the company in question putting "getting their way" over the concerns f the customers I'm reading here. And they are doing so for logic that's based on fallacy: the fallacy that any authorization scheme will prevent piracy or do anything except inconvenience the customer. My way? I don't honestly care. I'll make the decisons on wether to reccomend software or hardware to my clients based purely on wether it will do the job they want it to do when I consult on setting up a graphics studio. If for what they need to do, Poser 5 is the best tool, I'll reccomend that they buy it. If it's not, I'll reccomend something that will do the job they need. THAT's being a businessman, and THAT is serving my customers needs - not basing reccomendations on "likes" and "dislikes". When they ask me about a product, they want to hear why it will or won't, not like or dislike or "because I like the guy who makes it". Now, care to tackle my other challenge, proving that mine and other peoples assertions on wether protection schemes actually work are incorrect? Or are you capable? Feel free. Take your best shot... But do your research carefully - I've been around software, computers and the 'net a long time, and I can dig up links and research to back my assertions. So have a few of the people I recognise in this thread that have extremely similar backgrounds to me... Assuming I don't get bored, yawn and wander off, natch. ;]
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