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+ - MYOB software to be "deactivated" at end of year-> 0

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nk497

on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @05:37AM

nk497 writes "Customers are angry after being told software they paid for will be deactivated and left useless at the end of the year. In 2008, MYOB sold off its UK operations to Mamut, a rival software company. Mamut supported MYOB for two years, but is now planning to turn off activated copies of MYOB in the UK on December 31, using the software's copy-protection system, which checks in with a web server every time it's started up. "We're not talking little apps here, this software is critical to the operation of these enterprises," one user said. Customers are being given a discount on Mamut's own software."
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Comment: Re:But what's the difference? (Score 2, Interesting) 266

by morpheus800e on Friday June 05, 2009 @03:13PM (#28226341) Attached to: MS Issued a Fix For Its Unwanted FireFox Extension

Its trivial to re-enable something if its only disabled.

Clearly it was trivial to install in the first place.

Comment: Re:If muskets worked before... (Score 1) 830

by morpheus800e on Thursday April 23, 2009 @02:46PM (#27691989) Attached to: Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents

I'd like to see this rifle that can drive a nail.

Here you go - http://www.toolbarn.com/product/simpson/PT-22/

OK, so it's not really a rifle, but it does use .22cal cartridges.

Comment: Re:The April Fool (Score 1) 1582

by morpheus800e on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:11AM (#27415903) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

Same here.

+ - Does not having signed an NDA give any leverage?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:36PM

An anonymous reader writes "For the past few months, I've worked with a startup developing a new technology that could be of interest to many different sectors when market ready. Despite the fact that the company is well funded, I have yet to be paid, and the issue will likely soon come to a head. Through a combination of circumstance and oversight, I also happen to be the only employee at the company who has not signed a non-disclosure agreement, despite having full access to the technology at hand. Does this give me any discernible leverage in getting the money that is owed to me?"