Starforce at freeware

We regularly get Computer Magazines which held from time to time some CD's with data on it.

Last Year in December on one of the Discs was the Game Trackmania Nation, as free ware. Since it was entitled as free ware i thought, cool, and installed it.

What i was not aware is, that i also installed Starforce with it.

HELLO?!! F R E E W A R E ? !!

I was able to uninstall the damn thing, which of course meant i am unable to play Trackmania anymore. That led only to one conclusion.. bye bye!

I don't understand why someone was adding a software like starforce for a freeware game...

Boykott Starforce

not cost effective...

Working as a programmer for websites i have naturally to do with hosting companies. In Austria there are only a handful big Companies, e-Tel is one of them.

In e-Tel there are combined the old Hosting Companies eunet, nextra, e-Tel (of course) just to tell some big fishes. With the new year e-Tel has been bought by Telekom Austria, the biggest austrian phone provider.

We are now in the concept phase of a very big project, which i can't tell much about, but what i can tell is that it needs a whole bunch of servers load-balanced of course.

Getting offers from different Providers via Email, e-Tel called in and someone told me that it is "not cost effective" since they would have to create a whole infrastructure for our project.

I got offers from companies who are that small, that they may be smaller than the smallest branch of e-Tel. (i don't know for sure, but just to make my point).

I wonder what that means: is the company just not flexible enough or should somebody who's site is hosted there should be worried?

Worried or not i am puzzled.