Re: st: RE: reshape problem

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 03:28 PM 12/9/2008, Kyle Hood wrote:
> I work as a statistical consultant in a computer lab, and I ran into a
> patron who had this problem on his computer.  (Reshaping data,
> specifically.)  After much head-scratching, we figured out that it was
> his version of Stata that was causing the problem, as when it was done
> on the lab machines it worked fine.  Later, he admitted to me that the
> version of Stata 10 that he had been using was pirated.  In general, I
> would be careful if you are not using a fully licensed version of Stata
> 10, because I have seen this problem before, and Stata is very
> reasonably priced for researchers and students, anyway.  The reshaping
> worked fine on Stata 10 on the computer lab machines.  I'm not sure what
> version it was exactly that he was using.
Interesting.  Does Stata deliberately sabotage pirated copies 
somehow?  Or perhaps pirated copies can't be updated and this is a 
bug that got fixed after the initial release?

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