Actually, my only degree is in music theory. (-:

I was just playing devils advocate.  But my profession is IBM mainframes, and I think as a business if you pay for 100 mips you get that and if you want 200 mips you pay for that.  Who cares how you get it, no?  You also pay software licenses based on the number of mips your machine has, so all this is tied together.  

Am I wrong, or is the argument this:  "Oh, I could have just clipped that diode myself and saved myself a hundred grand." 

Please don't misunderstand me.  I don't have a problem copying software personally (I grew up in that age) but as a business you do things by the book, no?  Especially a business that can afford the large computers and software licenses that runs on them.



-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Peter
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 19:49
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: RE: [OT]:HP 6000 scopes with crippleware....



On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Lindy Mayfield wrote:

> Sorry, but I don't get it.  You pay for a computer with 1 meg of 
> memory, you get one.  You pay for 2 meg you get that.  What difference 
> does it make how the company chooses to implement this?  Perhaps the 
> customer should have been happy that their huge computer didn't have 
> to be completely replaced.

You sound like you have a MBA ? ;-) There are lots of engineers and 
techies on this list who will strongly disagree.

Peter
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