🚀 go-pugleaf

"Jay T. Blocksom" <usenet01+SPAMBLOCK@appropriate-tech.net> wrote in message
news:f6565vge3rhgk4if2sophnoevalt81fkui@news.rcn.com...
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:36:49 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, privatecontact
> <not_now@spam.net> wrote:
>  >
>  > This is old news and isn't even relevant when you look at Turbo Tax
>  > sales.  Intuit just reported in its profit report that sales are up by
>  > 11%.  Guess that means that people really don't view this as spyware,
>     [snip]
>
> Wrong, for several reasons -- not the least of which is that, given the
way
> retail marketing and distributuion works, there has not yet been anywhere
> near enough time for the fallout from this fiasco to hit Intuit's P&L
sheet
> (but don't worry; they'll be sure to hide it when it does come time).
>
>  > but a legitemate attempt by the company to protect its investment.
>     [snip]
>
> Nonsense.  It is a clear example of short-sighted greed and arrogance
> overruling common sense.  Forcing user-hostile functionality down the
> throats of your customers is NEVER a good idea.  Neither is stealing from
> your customers or committing vandalism to their property..
>
> Note:  We already fought the copy-protection wars back in the early '80s
> (remember "Lotus 1-2-3"?).  It went away then because it was generally
> considered unacceptable for a vendor to deliberately place usability
> roadblocks in the path of their legitimate users.  This is no different in
> that respect; only a more vicious and more damaging implementation of the
> same brain-dead idea.  It too needs to go away.  Entirely.
>
> --
>
> Jay T. Blocksom
> --------------------------------
> Appropriate Technology, Inc.
> usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net
>
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>    -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
>
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i agree, i switched to another program this year !