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So… Adobe finally admit they are imposing censorship in their software. Add to this Product Activation and you are starting to get a situation I really don’t want to be part of.
I understand their need to arrest piracy of their material. According to the thought police, "the price of software will reduce if we can halt or limit illegal use". Yeah, right. What a cop out!
What we have is the beginning of Government control of our personal computers. Already Microsoft harvest every news article we post. They obtain complete information about all the software installed on your (Win XP) PC and can go further by tracking the serial number of the (Intel) CPU. Adobe have obeyed Big Brother and are now enforcing censorship in their product.
If this is starting to sound like a bash up of USA owned corporations and how they are beginning to take control of the world’s computers… That’s what it looks like to me.
All I need to decide is on how much functionality I am prepared to forego in order to use 100% open source software. One more activation stuff up with Windows and I’ll ditch it. If Adobe jerk me around because I’ve had 3 new mainboards in 4 weeks and had to re-install (like MS did) and I’ll ditch them too. I’m getting bloody angry now!
"There has been a major hardware change since Windows was activated. You have 3 days to re-activate the product." Next message? "Activation failed. This copy of Windows is already installed on another PC. If you think this message is in error, contact Microsoft".
Four attempts to reach a human later…
Hello (Indian voice) Microsoft activation. (Me). This bloody crap windows has spat the dummy on me and I need it re-activated. (Indian Voice) Yes sir… Just tell me the 54 number code on your screen and have a pen and paper ready to enter the code I give you.
I actually paid $450 for 25 cents worth of plastic disk to go through this crap? Like hell. Photoshop’s next… I can’t wait! NOT! Right now Linux and the Gimp are looking pretty good.
The Yowie
I understand their need to arrest piracy of their material. According to the thought police, "the price of software will reduce if we can halt or limit illegal use". Yeah, right. What a cop out!
What we have is the beginning of Government control of our personal computers. Already Microsoft harvest every news article we post. They obtain complete information about all the software installed on your (Win XP) PC and can go further by tracking the serial number of the (Intel) CPU. Adobe have obeyed Big Brother and are now enforcing censorship in their product.
If this is starting to sound like a bash up of USA owned corporations and how they are beginning to take control of the world’s computers… That’s what it looks like to me.
All I need to decide is on how much functionality I am prepared to forego in order to use 100% open source software. One more activation stuff up with Windows and I’ll ditch it. If Adobe jerk me around because I’ve had 3 new mainboards in 4 weeks and had to re-install (like MS did) and I’ll ditch them too. I’m getting bloody angry now!
"There has been a major hardware change since Windows was activated. You have 3 days to re-activate the product." Next message? "Activation failed. This copy of Windows is already installed on another PC. If you think this message is in error, contact Microsoft".
Four attempts to reach a human later…
Hello (Indian voice) Microsoft activation. (Me). This bloody crap windows has spat the dummy on me and I need it re-activated. (Indian Voice) Yes sir… Just tell me the 54 number code on your screen and have a pen and paper ready to enter the code I give you.
I actually paid $450 for 25 cents worth of plastic disk to go through this crap? Like hell. Photoshop’s next… I can’t wait! NOT! Right now Linux and the Gimp are looking pretty good.
The Yowie
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