Sign of the times

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

While we were out running around last night, one of the stops we made was to browse around at Half-Price Books. (One of my favorite places!) As I was walking past the software section I noticed a little sign telling customers that they would be glad to buy and resell various games or children’s software but would not be doing transactions involving Operating Systems or Office/Productivity software any longer. The reason given for this is that they felt that with all the various Product Activation and one-time installation schemes being built-in to software there was no way to be sure that they were selling a satisfactory product that would work for the customer who purchased it.

I guess I can see why they would stop doing that. I certainly wouldn’t want to be charged with checking every copy of software that comes in to see whether it’s going to run for the next person who installs it, and I guess I could see the potential for people to install software, copy the installation cd and then sell the original while still using the actual software. I don’t know what the answer is there, but I thought it was interesting. 🙂

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • Memorial Day

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    It’s Memorial Day. Given that, it was only natural to spend some of the day at Appomattox Court House and then the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA. This picture was from the second stop of the day, and if you’re in the area of Bedford, I highly recommend it! More pictures when I get back…

  • Net Stumbler

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    According to Gizmodo, Netstumbler 0.4 is out with: “support of the Atheros, Atmel, and Intersil Prism2-based cards (the chipset many WiFi PCMCIA and CF cards use), which means there’s a better chance that NetStumbler or MiniStumbler will work with your hardware.” I could never get the previous version to work with my PCMCIA wireless card,…

  • Excuse the mess

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’ve been trying to get the RecipRoll from blogrolling.com to go into the table in place of the Gnomedex roll, since Gnomedex is sort of old news. But the RecipRoll, because it uses actual URLs, is a little too long to fit without changing the width of the tables to accomodate it. Not cool! I…

  • Happy Sys- Admin day

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’m obviously not in the office so no one is going to “appreciate” me, you know like they even notice me outside of when something needs fixed. *L* Listening to Nelson Minar talk about the magic behing Google. It’s pretty interesting. I’m sure the more developer-type folks here have more to say about it. Follow…

  • Snappy comebacks

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Mark, over at spudlets put together a short list of snappy comebacks , defined as: Often, when a poor client in distress calls, they will typically start with, “I know you’re real busy, but …” As a service for helpdesk geeks like me, I have listed the snappy comebacks you wish you could give but…

  • Switch over

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I officially switched the RSS Feed over to the new BloggerPro version of it, since it came out of Beta and into production. Now if you click the little “XML” image on the right side, you’ll go to that feed instead of the old one. The old one will continue to work for now, but…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)