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Subject:Re: getting experience with expensive tools From:Tom Johnson <tomjohnson1492 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> Date:Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:54:05 -0600
As long as you're not using it for commercial purposes, I don't see this
reformatting option as particularly dishonest. More than anything it would
be time-consuming and tedious. Do the legal "I agree" options of software
prevent this kind of action? Maybe they do. Not sure.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Dan Goldstein <
DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> That doesn't sound particularly honest.
>
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> > Would it be feasible to buy a relatively inexpensive desktop
> > computer for $400 that you just reformat every time your
> > trial version expires (and then reinstall)? That would work
> > as long as you kept the executable files for the trial
> > versions on a separate USB drive or something...
> >
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