[Shotimes] Anti Virus

[sho @ crued.net]

If you pay $30,000 for a car, which is under a factory warranty, why should
you have to pay for the oil?

Similar situation.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Bill Murray
> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 2:09 AM
> To: 'Ron Porter'; 'SHOTimes'
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Anti Virus
>
>
> If I'm paying $40 for the program, why must I also pay $xxx for the
> definitions??  Writing an update definition for viruses is not a lot of
> money.  Hell, the code for the virus itself is not very big; the
> definitions are only a fraction of the size.  A subscription should be
> free for more than just the first year of use.
>
> Bill Murray
> Thinking that software is overpriced to begin with and yes I download
> "free" songs, but if I like it, I buy the CD.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Porter [mailto:ronporter@prodigy.net]
> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:40 AM
> To: 'Bill Murray'; 'SHOTimes'
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Anti Virus
>
> Oh, so the companies don't have any expenses to keep their product
> up-to-date, or if they do, they should just let it be free??  Sorry,
> couldn't disagree more. It's like saying that you buy a car, but all of
> the
> maintenance and repairs should be free for the life of it.
>
> And no, I have never downloaded a song "free" from the Internet, either.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Murray [mailto:fordsho@cloud9grafx.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:47 PM
> To: 'Ron Porter'; SHOTimes
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Anti Virus
>
>
> AVG is pretty good, I recommend it all the time to people that don't
> want to buy an AV program and pay for the subscription on top of it(I
> think extra subscription fees are wrong anyway).
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