"BoB" <rhoward30@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:nrelhvo57h8drecnfn4ne1hjtimeqvles7@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:38:02 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
> >http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1195130,00.asp
>
> The last paragraph in this article says, "Although few software products
> today use some form of DRM, in some circles the practice is becoming the
> norm. For example, some downloadable versions of Symantec's Norton
> Antivirus software include DRM, which Symantec executives have claimed
> is the most heavily-pirated software in the world." The pirates can have
> it.
>
> I will no longer use Norton products or anything else that involves DRM
> screwing with my computer. My latest computer was offered with the XP,
> Norton AV and Norton System Works installed. I said I'd buy one if they
> 'removed' all the Symantec programs and installed Win98SE. They did and
> I bought it.
>
> BoB
>

Cool for you I managed not to get stuck with anything whatever
Symantec - or for that matter anything other than the XP but as I had to
have a new machine NOW to deal with a hardware crash and burn and it had to
run Windows, that I got stuck with. They DID take off the $100 or so price
difference in the OS cost, right?