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>>There is PLENTY of choices. We, as a society, are awash with choices.
sure. i can choose to use software that is not fully compatible with msft
products at home because i'm annoyed with the activation thing, and suffer
the consequences. or i can choose to fight city hall, and try get the CIO
of my 80,000 person company to go with open source, and enter a nursing home
before i get my computer working.
but in the real world, most people use microsoft products (or adobe, or
whatever, that require activation) because there are no VIABLE choices other
than the ones they are TOLD to make.
when there was ONE spreadsheet to choose from, it had an annoying copy
protection feature. when there were THREE products with similar
functionality, the annoying copy protection feature went away. why do you
suppose that was?
as to why large corporations choose the products they do, i think that's
outside the scope of this discussion. for individual users, SOHO-type
setups, etc., i'm willing to bet that given several reasonably comparable
alternatives, they would avoid the activation product like the plague, just
like they avoided 1-2-3 until lotus got rid of the copy protection.
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