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Intuit Disables Features in Quicken To Force Upgrades
Numerous people submitted a blurb from BoingBoing about Intuit disabling features in older versions of Quicken. Why the BoingBoing submitter and Mr. Doctorow are so upset about this I don't know; when you buy software that's dependent on a for-profit company to keep working, what do you expect?
Michael using his power as an editor to troll! And I thought he had grown out of that.
Lasers Controlled Games!
Dude, pretty much anything that has todo with money has todo with profit. Even the tsunami relief aid [SCAM!!!] concerts are about getting image out and being able to rob more mindshare. [*]
I have no problem paying for tax software. I would have a problem though if they locked me into a proprietary format so I couldn't escape later.
[*] All those who don't think tsunami relief aid is a scam please say "I cared about the people of the affected regions BEFORE December 26th, 2004".
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Another kneejerk from a corpratist whose .sig says "Don't just save the whales - collect the whole set" in every post. You're such a corporatist that you can't even conceive how a corporation can shut off network access to some features, to force an upgrade. Michael's insight into how likely is this scenario in any other network-reliant proprietary software is relevant, even if it's a quick take on an evident problem. "Sure there are some real issues..." bla bla bla. You have nothing but lip service to the global corporate welfare problem, but you've got plenty of bashing for a report on the global market leader in personal finance forcing more profits from already satisfied customers. Even if this turns out to be a mistake by a confused Intuit user, or a con by a phisher, when these scenarios are genuine you obviously reflexively side with the global corporation unilaterally cutting off the consumer. You better have a decent corporation to suck off, if you're going to prefer their company to humans.
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