New Reward: Symantec Licenses for Personal Use
Here is a reward that Symantec could offer for basicly no cost, that I for one would really appreciate: Symantec licenses for my own computers at home.
Everyone contributing to Symantec Connect is a professional supporting Symantec products. Pretty safe bet we all have computers at home - probably most of us have multilple ones. I bet I'm not the only one running VMWare, VirtualBox, or another virtualization tool to build out virtual machines for different uses. Any time I build a computer or VM at home, I have to decide what to do about AV. I would think that Symantec would love to give me Endpoint Protection rather than have me go out and download the free Avira or Microsoft Security Essentials.
A lot of my personal VM's are Linux. We aren't using Symantec on our Linux boxes at work, so I would think Symantec would be thrilled to have me doing it at home, so when the time comes here at work, I already know how to do it.
Since the cost to Symantec would be virtually zero, I recommend a low value - maybe 50 points? That is high enough to ensure the person has participated at least somewhat, but below 100 point minimum for all the other rewards.
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I really like this
We're currently working on a way to do this. Sounds easy, but not quite as easy as one would hope. We'll let you know when we have a solution.
The devil is in the details
Thanks for your support of the idea! As always, the devil will be in the details. I hope Symantec will be flexible in the arrangement. For instance, it would be great if the license could be used for personal use or a small business. Here are a bunch of scenarios. Which would be legitimate uses?
I built these scenarios to blur the distinction between personal and small business use. I hope that Symantec would be flexible enough to allow Scenarios 1, 2, 3, and 4. 5 seems questionable. 6 could go either way, depending on Symantec's goals. 7 is clearly wrong. 8 is probably wrong, unless Symantec chooses to explicitly allow it to encourage companies who support Symantec products.
Good luck working through the specifics! And thanks for considering it.
- Paul
I would like to see SEP 12
I would like to see SEP 12 SBE available, and making some of the consumer products available as rewards would be great as well. Adding NIS, Norton 360 and Online Backup would be useful to many of our forum contributors.
Best,
Thomas
Nice idea, I propose one like
Nice idea, I propose one like this but never got in review.
Hi Leslie, are there any
Hi Leslie, are there any updates on this idea?
Thanks,
Thomas
No updates yet
We're still working on this though.
Thanks,
Leslie
what ever happened?
to this work?
I would also like to see the
I would also like to see the Endpoint Protection.cloud product added to the list of products available as rewards.
Cheers,
Thomas
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