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Blow it out your ear.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2024, @01:43AM
I have my old Eagle 4 and 6, perpetual license, offline, for that reason. I stopped at WIN7, with the GRC patch that destroyed the upgrade backdoor (Never 10). I still leave it offline to the public net, although I still use it on my own intranet. I have several systems ( laptops, actually ) that are all cloned, so if one has an issue, I can clone the system back from a known good system. Clonezilla. DAZ 2.2.2, xp_activate32, because the OS activation servers have been offline for years, and I often swap parts around while troubleshooting aging hardware, which occasionally will deactivate my system. I have bent as far as I can to accommodate finicky terms. I consider the newer commercial stuff far too fragile to consider seriously for anything critical, however I will use the latest inexpensive throwaway Androids to communicate with businesses on the web.
It's a time-to-live thing for me. I will acquire and keep tools that are multigenerational, just as I still use tools I inherited. However most businesses are not designed to last more than a couple of years. They have to use cheap stuff that doesn't last to do unimportant things like communicating with customers. Some businesses already won't talk to my three year old browser on my phone. I won't even try talking to business with my Win95 k-meleon. The ONLY site that works with everything I have is SoylentNews.org!
However not all businessmen are so nearsighted...some even still run COBOL systems for the really important things like accounting and contract work. It's just the throwaway things like customers that have to put up with finicky business storefronts.
I still use the old html4 because it is much simpler, it's rendering instructions make bar chart presentation easy, and I can support form instructions, radio buttons, tick boxes, and download instruction that may take megabytes of support libraries to implement...I just use a few kilobytes of assembler or compiled C. I only implement what I need, as all I am doing is using a web browser as an HMI. So in case some rightsholder delicenses me, I can swap it out to something more fungible.