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My two cents on UIF support
I was originally going to post this in an old thread but it's been closed.
The thing is, I have 31gb of university material which has been distributed around campus in UIF format for god knows what reason. I went to mount it in Daemon Tools and what should I discover other than it's not supported!
I jumped onto the forums expecting to find some wholly sane reason such as "we're working on it" or "there are legal problems because it's owned by MagicISO", only to find that the reason most people were giving was that it's commonly used for warez...
Come on people, this is a program not a religion. UIF should be supported because it's a CD image and Daemon Tools is a virtual drive manager. If you really have an issue with warez then take a stand where it matters, become an activist or take it to the streets. Don't make life for everybody else difficult just because you don't feel that we should be 'encouraging piracy' by using a cd image which was designed with completely legitimate use in mind.
Ethics and programming should only share the same table where security and stability are concerned. By Daemon Tools' reasoning, we should now confiscate all tools used by tradesmen the world over because they are dangerous and can be used as weapons.
Get off your moral high horses and think logically.
The thing is, I have 31gb of university material which has been distributed around campus in UIF format for god knows what reason. I went to mount it in Daemon Tools and what should I discover other than it's not supported!
I jumped onto the forums expecting to find some wholly sane reason such as "we're working on it" or "there are legal problems because it's owned by MagicISO", only to find that the reason most people were giving was that it's commonly used for warez...
Come on people, this is a program not a religion. UIF should be supported because it's a CD image and Daemon Tools is a virtual drive manager. If you really have an issue with warez then take a stand where it matters, become an activist or take it to the streets. Don't make life for everybody else difficult just because you don't feel that we should be 'encouraging piracy' by using a cd image which was designed with completely legitimate use in mind.
Ethics and programming should only share the same table where security and stability are concerned. By Daemon Tools' reasoning, we should now confiscate all tools used by tradesmen the world over because they are dangerous and can be used as weapons.
Get off your moral high horses and think logically.
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