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To return to an earlier discussion...
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:52:57PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> But that just brings you right to the next level: software that
> says "This version has expired! Download a newer version!" and
> quits, and there's no newer version because the programmer and/or
> his company has expired.
Don't forget also the software that expires and you can't install it because
it now has more requirements than you can handle: MSN Messenger on my old
Mac - as used by my younger brother who is not very geeky and just uses it
because it works well (which surprises me for a Microsoft app) - is now
refusing to run, announcing that we must upgrade to the newest version. The
newest version only works on OS X. Upgrading the entire OS on this box just
for some shitty IM client is a no-no, not least because that's a very shaky
prospect on this hardware. Fucking wankers! Thankfully, Jabber-MSN
transports seem to work OK (another reason to be using TVJab, which started
this thread).
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