At 12:04 PM 10/29/3, Steve Maxey wrote:
> So what happens if 5, 10 years from now... Macromedia,
> heavens forfend, goes out of business or is bought out by
> some other company that wants to kill the MX Suite because
> it competes with its own products or wants to forcibly
> migrate users to its app.

That sounds like this...?

> (Q) Will activation ever require me to upgrade my product? Will
> Macromedia ever stop activating products that require activation?
> (A) Activation is only used to verify a product's licenser the
> first time the product is installed.
> Macromedia will support the activation of products throughout
> their lifecycle. In the unlikely even that activation is no longer
> supported for a particular product, Macromedia will make available
> to registered customers a version that does not require activation.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemC-3


I've received two types of objections to the above:
-- "Yes, I see what it says on the website, but I want it in a legal
contract, with penalties if you don't."
-- "Yes, but what happens if you can't, if Macromedia disappears and you
can't do this?"

I don't have airtight replies to either of the above, but can just point to
the FAQ's general implication of trying to do the right thing.


(For the other part of this thread, thanks for the tracking number Sheri,
I've forwarded it in to the folks tracking the email system.)


jd




John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco
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