On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:06:13PM -0600, Shawn Fertch wrote: > If a software company were to pull all licenses for existing software that > was released prior to their currently marketed software, for no other > reason than to force companies to upgrade, I would see that as a bad > marketing move. One would think that it would give people/companies > deciding to either upgrade or buy the software from said company a second > thought. In the consumer market, sure. When you get into the higher-end stuff, though, that changes. I used to work for a (now dead) voicemail software company whose license terms basically said, "You must upgrade whenever we release a new version of our software." -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss