Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (or nigh on impossible) at any time. Th

Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (or nigh on impossible) at any time. This applies to so many things involving computers, and of course most aspects of modern life. Back in the good (bad?) old days there were no such things as "personal" computers. We created our programs on punched cards and trudged down to the computer center to run them. And that, to me, was what I hated the most about the computers of the time. I was dependent on the good graces of the University to get a few precious minutes of computer time to use to run my programs. So, when the first usable PCs were invented, people flocked to them. 8K bytes of RAM meant you could run a BASIC interpreter on your own computer. Once you bought it, you could use it as much as you wanted to, for any reason that you wanted to. Period. It's unfortunate that so much of modern computer life once again depends on the good graces of others.