Subj : Windows Update
To   : Ross Cassell
From : Bob Bainbridge
Date : Thu Feb 27 2003 06:49 pm


 RC> I cant really blame any of the software vendors from 
 RC> protecting their licenses, any more than a municipal 
 RC> cable TV system going after those that steal cable TV.

 RC> As for the Tax software, for every 6 copies used last 
 RC> year, only 2 were legit purchases, at least from what I 
 RC> heard..

Copy protection has been tried over and over again since I started using PC's 
in 1981 and has never gone over well. Several articles have revealed that the 
C-Dilla/Safecast program being used by Intuit runs as a Service under Win2k & 
XP, using 1.4mb of memory and continues running even after Turbotax has been 
uninstalled. Intuit was finally pressured into posting an uninstall program for 
the C-Dilla program. It also writes data into unused sectors in the drive 
partition table area. A partition backup would not save the activation data so 
after restoring the partition it would have to be activated again. I don't have 
much use for companies that are doing unknown things to my drive, especially if 
they don't cleanup after an uninstall.

Bob Bainbridge <Team OS/2>
bob_bainbridge@prodigy.net

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