From: Gary Britt 

I've got a program that will lie to programs like that and make it think
its whatever date you want.  I think it can be setup to lie to a program's
installer, but not positive of that.  This program does its lying without
changing the system date globally.  I haven't ever tried it yet, but its
from the same folks that do the resplendent registrar registry editor that
is really excellent (especially the older version 2 of their free version)
because it allows you to take ownership of keys and change permissions
right from the editor in a manner that is not possible or more useful than
regedit or regedt32, and its find/search functions are far superior to
regedit and regedt32.

Their lie program will also do lying about operating system, tell a program
its running from a CD drive when its running from the hard disk, etc.

Gary

John Beamish wrote:
> The quote that caught my eye ws "The reader first became aware of the
> problem when Intuit's sunset policies forced one of his customers to
> upgrade their version of Quickbooks. "
>
> I have a microbusiness so my accountant said use a spreadsheet or, if
> you're feeling adventurous, use QB but it's far more than you need.  I
> was feeling adventurous (sigh).
>
> A couple of years later I got a call from Intuit.  They were sunsetting
> my version and told me that I'd have to upgrade.  I asked a few
> questions and one response was "As of [can't remember the date], you
> will not be able to reinstall QB if the need should arise."
>
> I use a spreadsheet now.
>
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:39:04 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>  wrote:
>
>> MS conspiracy or idiotic accounting vendors? I vote for the latter
>>
>> http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/01/accounting_vend.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  "I have two clients using multi-user network accounting
packages," the
>> reader wrote. "One uses Quickbooks, the other uses Peachtree. In both
>> cases
>> upgrades to newer versions of each accounting package required I set up
>> either a peer system or a dedicated server with Windows, and move away
>> from
>> the Linux servers I'd set up for both. The reason? Both Intuit and Sage
>> Software now use .NET to develop these applications, and both are,
>> according
>> to their support staff, complying with Microsoft standards for their
>> backend
>> database components -- components which won't work on non-Microsoft
>> network
>> servers."
>>

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