On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 00:05 -0700, Vitaliy wrote:
> >> How about this alternative for students: have their accounts verified by
> >> their professor, or ship the free samples only to university/college/high
> >> school addresses?
> >
> > Way too much work, on both the students part (much of my work during
> > school wasn't FOR school), the profs (trust me, they are not interested
> > in more work) and the companies (confirming a prof is a prof?). As a
> > student I would have considered a manu requiring this not worth my time
> > given their competition didn't have those requirements.
> 
> Well OK, how about just requiring that the package be shipped to a school 
> address and addressed to a Prof.?

Again, Profs are busy and trust me: they don't want the bother. And,
what about work that has nothing to do with school (which was almost all
my PIC work)?

> Remember that we're talking about a potentially "all-or-nothing" situation. 
> If Microchip can easily write off the losses due to abuse, there's nothing 
> to argue about. However back in August they said that the scammers forced 
> them to cancel the free samples program, so it must have been serious 
> enough.

Sounds more like bean counters got their hands on things. As for "all or
nothing", having it sent to a Prof is WORSE then nothing to me since I'd
rather not have something then have the Prof secretly annoyed with me.

> In any case, the bottom line is that they can find ways to stop the abuse 
> without causing too much inconvenience to the legitimate users.

If that were the case they'd all implement those "ways".

TTYL

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