 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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Re: Symantec Product Activation Poses Problems said by javaMan:
Well, I hope so and demanding a refund until it's fixed wouldn't hurt either. We have been forced to accept deficient products for so long that no one even asks "why should I have to" anymore. The software companies, in their rush to beat or stay current with the competition, have been forcing us, for years, to accept as normal, the proposition that we should expect any product they put on the market to be defective in some way. Now I understand, as well as anyone, how difficult it is to engineer a program that is completely bug free; I'm not suggesting this. I am trying to point out that this type of problem and the company's method for correcting it is, to me, just another sign of how little regard they have for their customers and their autocratic attitudes regarding their moral responsibilities to them. I am not bashing Symantec, MS or any other company but I think it's high time for reform and the only way that will happen is when customers stand together and say enough is enough.
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness. . . Isa. 5:20
Informative post javaMan.
I honestly think the problem lies, not with the software programmers, but the hardware vendors who sell INFERIOR hardware.
I have always bought (and sometimes haven't bought, ::shudder:: ) the most stable hardware I could find. I wouldn't recommend it to my friends who trust my judgement if I wouldn't run it myself.
I have never had most of the problems I see posted like the Symantec Activation problem. Neither have my friends who buy what I recommend.
I think most of the software "problems" lie, (with a few exceptions, the Win 9x series being the MAJOR one), with the stupidity and "cheapness" of the end user.
After all, if you buy a $399 dollar PC with a $100 dollar mail-in-rebate, which most families would FLOCK to, what do you expect?
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