Adam,
Yes they can cause it to stop functioning. They may not be able to remove it from my machine but they can keep me from adding additional information. I know this from personal experience. I was using a software program which will remain nameless. It was licensed and this license had to be renewed yearly. One year I was late in renewing and when I did a routine update, my license info was hijacked and the program stopped functioning on that computer. My copy of that program on that computer could not be accessed until I paid the renewal fee. Believe me, the technology is there. I take no offense from comments made by either you or Bert and I have no intention (at this time) of getting all huffy and leaving the board. However, I think you are being too naive and trusting. If this were not something Jon believed strongly in then why was the EULA changed from the original which did not have this wording to the present one which does? If he is being influenced by lawyers to put in this "legalese" then those same lawyers certainly have the power over him to encourage him to enforce it. I would like to hear the discussion about this at the AC conference. I plan not to upgrade until I return from there and what I hear or don't hear there will likely influence that decision. I love the product and I believe Jon deserves every penny he asks for for its use. But I will not risk the integrity of my patient data in order to give it to him. Again, in my mind (small as it might be) I feel the best approach is one of "Pay as you go". Purchase the product for a given price and then pay for any and all updates/modules you desire when you desire them, not necessarily annually. If there are no worthy updates then why pay for something you already paid for?
Leslie
Leslie
