From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-12 06:35:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9v57u1$mfb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3C163AAB.1C8EEA69@san.rr.com> <9v5et8$pfd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3C16B720.AB523493@adaworks.com> <3C16FB82.4C243BB3@attbi.com> <3miWUMO0XDWw@eisner.encompasserve.org> Subject: Re: Future with Ada Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:35:05 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:35:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17832 Date: 2001-12-12T14:35:05+00:00 List-Id: In article <3miWUMO0XDWw@eisner.encompasserve.org>, Larry Kilgallen says... >I supposed it depends on your lifestyle. I have lots of computers >(typically not Windows) and it is a rare year I would make such a >configuration change aside from on an external SCSI chain. But then >I am not a hardware person. We basicly have a rotating hardware system at my house. I purchase about 3-5 new components a year. The new ones go in my machine, my old ones go in my wife's machine, and starting this year, my wife's old ones go in the kids' machine. Eventually we will have enough old ones from that to give each kid their own machine... Anyway, I have no huge problem with having to call a # somewhere to activate an OS license. I'm used to having to do that with Unix software at work. What I do have a big problem with is the vendor deciding that after 3 or 4 upgrades, I have to purchase a whole new copy. Depending on the components, that could put me out 3 whole OS's (one for each machine) in a year (or about $600). The first time that happens, a Free OS *will* be the replacement... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.