Re: three CAD/CAM contenders...

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Bob Stone" <spoothammer@h...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What everyone seems to forget, (which is hard to believe when you
>look at
> the number of companies that disappear overnight) that when the
>company is
> gone, you're kind of screwed. Yeah OK, you might have a key disk
>for a while
> but when that gets trashed, then what. These software packages are
>expensive
> enough that they should allow the user "Fair Use

Good reply Bob but you have to take into account what the software
cost and what you earn with it. Things move on.
It's not limited to just key disk software though I have / had two
old utility programs that had no protection at all. One fell over
after about 6 years and the firm is out of business so no joy. The
other fell over just after that and when I contacted the firm they
said 'Wow is someone still using that? and they sent me a new exe
file.
I got the impression that it was only programmed for the 7 year span.
Isn't this what Microsoft is on about with their license idea.
Half the programs I ran three years ago won't run anymore on my
modern machine.
Then there's the other scenerio. If the firm goes tits up they could
put it into the public domain just to stuff the opposition up. Take
Visio / Intellicad and Autodesk.

John S.