<i>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.</i><p>This applies to so many things involving computers, and of course most aspects of modern life.<p>Back in the good (bad?) old days there were no such things as &quot;personal&quot; computers. We created our programs on punched cards and trudged down to the computer center to run them.<p>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.<p>So, when the first usable PCs were invented, people flocked to them. 8K bytes of RAM meant you could run a BASIC interpreter on <i>your own</i> computer. Once you bought it, you could use it as much as you wanted to, for any reason that you wanted to. Period.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that so much of modern computer life once again depends on the good graces of others.