[PCB_FORUM] Re: Allegro15.1> rants galore...
- From: "Gene Carman" <gcarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:32:30 -0700
How about "buyer beware..."
So they make thousands of CDs with semi-official looking labels and the buyers
snap them up thinking they are getting running software, but also knowing that
the process is less than legit. When the software installs, yet does not run,
to whom does the buyer complain? Good chance that the seller has long moved
on, such is the black market.
Gottcha!
Further, the stuff is not exactly home use stuff... it does take both a desire
and certain skills to learn and run it... I rather doubt that there really are
"thousands" of running copies of Allegro out there... AutoCAD probably; MS
Word, hundreds of thousands perhaps...
I am not condoning the practice, just pointing out that the market for PWB
design software is a bit more complex than that for word processing software.
Gene Carman
gcarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: alex forbes [mailto:alex.forbes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:28 PM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Allegro15.1> rants galore...
I wonder how many of these CD's, that someone has gone to the trouble of
pirating and making thousands of copies of, they would continue to sell if the
software didnt work?, obviously they have broken the requirement for licences
or have found a code that will work.
I suspect there are far too many requests for help on this list from people in
China and India for it to be otherwise!, I wonder what Cadence's policy is to
controlling pirate software in, what will be in 20 years, two of the three
major markets in the world for their software?
Will the companies that currently use pirate software buy legal copies once
they are profitable and their countries tighten up their software laws?,
marketing at its finest I suggest!
Alex
>>> MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 20/10/2004 11:03:10 a.m. >>>
I was wondering about that, too.
How could you get licenses? They aren't easy to generate as
far as I know, and you need some machine specific stuff, too.
I can't see how the software itself is even worth $5 if
it won't run for you.
Maybe you could hang those cd's in the window for a nice effect
on those sunny, sunny days.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:19 PM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Allegro15.1> rants galore...
Software is only half the issue... you still need a license to run the
software... Software CDs without a valid license is just a hunk of
plastic. Am I missing something here?
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