Re: Collecting data for article on Software Migration on new Hardware

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The issue that has me curious on this is what about bug fixes as opposed 
to new features?  I use & love RDi and have a legal copy

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I find what appear to me to be not-as-designed points from time to time. 
 I don't expect new features but I would like a bug-fix every few years.

On 8/19/2016 2:29 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> IBM will not give you new keys for hardware that's not currently
> licensed, why should other vendors? You stopped paying them for
> maintenance or support so what entitles you to new keys? It doesn't
> matter if 'it's easy'.  It's also 'easy' to duplicate a DVD and give it
> to a friend instead of paying for one of your own. It's easy to copy
> software and install it on another PC. That doesn't make it legal.
>
> I completely agree with what Pete is doing here but anyone who thinks
> they deserve keys for free when they are technically not even a customer
> any longer is in my opinion flatly wrong.
>
>         - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis