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Maybe I'm too accepting, but I don't see this as such a big deal. Guys like
Equis and Omega spend big bucks developing their trading software, only to
have it ripped off by some Russian hacker who resells it for $100.
The biggest hassle I see is having to rummage in storage for the CD. When my
"insert CD" message came up, I actually clicked on "Do it later" and it
hasn't reappeared. That's one message in the 5 or 6 months since upgrading
to 7.0, so it's not like a weekly or monthly nag message. And frankly, I'd
rather have this security measure than a hardware dongle.
I do have a gripe though. The Version 7.0 documentation either didn't warn
about the new security measure or the warning was buried deep somewhere.
Equis, you have to clearly warn the users with laptops that they need to
have the CD onhand at Day 90 (or whatever).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Baude" <BAUDECB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: CD 7 days check.
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:07:12 -0800, "Eric Duchesne"
> <ericduchesne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Here is a message that might help the metastock 7.0 user.
> >
> >I have talked with the service departement of equis. If you do not do the
> >check CD in time your program will be erased. Therefore, you better make
> >some back up if you are using 7.0
>
> This is very scary. I'm a registered user of MetaStock since the
> early days.
>
> If this is the case, Equis can forget my upgrading to EOD v 7.x. When
> I get the offer, I will have to send them an agreement, which of
> course they'll refuse to sign, so I guess this is how other companies
> become players and some go the way of Wordstar, dBase, and we all
> remember the older favorite "ARC" program.
>
> George (Equis) - What is Equis's position. Is this correct that the
> program "self destructs"?
>
> -= Chris ß =-
> Using FastTrack/FastRUBE/FastTools/Trade/EZPnF/PSM/MetaStock
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