Scoble & Tivo

re: Scoble & Tivo

kip — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 04:39:00 GMT

Actually I wasn't referring to the subscription model, but to the license/activation model, which does fall into the "aren't mine when I buy them" box. Since I just upgraded to Office Pro to be able to play with xml and am now stuck with a copy of SBE I can't sell because of license/activation, and since I've been sorting out in the newsgroups some problems with a guy who, after signing up for "Customer Experience Improvement", is freaking because his computer keeps phoning home, I'm a little touchy about a) and b) above. I was joking, though!

re: Scoble & Tivo

Jason Nadal — Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:30:00 GMT

I haven't had to pay a subscription fee for office yet (although I have heard rumors that this is the plan for the future). If you're referring to the upgrades as a subscription fee, I'd counter that older versions of the software still work as they do when they were purchased. Although, yes, if Office went subscription based, I'd be pretty disappointed...

re: Scoble & Tivo

kip — Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:02:00 GMT

boy if your criteria is correct, don't you have quite a problem with, say, Microsoft Office?

heh.