If UBI's DRM scheme is unacceptable...

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

I hate to rain on your parade there buddy, but how did you extrapolate all that from my post you quoted?

out in the rural or remote community of Canada? how do they get their email then?

Ah... you don't get e-mail or you pull it in using an old dial-up modem (28.8k anyone?). If there aren't any land lines you can do point-to-point with short-wave radio. Of course, if you're in the high Arctic most Inuit communities have satellite, but the rest of us further south are screwed

However, you can install your software and even activate it in the city and then ship the computer to wherever you're going.

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Or, (this bit is for Avimimus as well) with your shiny new car... that you've replaced the engine and running gear with the engine and running gear from another manufacturer and wonder why the dealer you've bought car from won't honour your shop warranty?

I don't like being a kept pet. I'd rather be able to fix things myself or have multiple sources of spares than have my activities "owned" by a warranty.

Similarly, I'd rather own my appliances than lease them. I certainly wouldn't want to give those running a warranty keys to my house and permission for them to muck about without telling me what they were doing or asking permission to enter the property.

This might be worth reading (in case you missed it):
http://web.archive.org/web/200502120.../emancipn.html