Re: Bios change and ask for new activation

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:23:25 -0600

Perhaps you should post to the Linux groups.
There are Linux users with far less experience than you claim who
succeed where you fail.
The reality is, you are unable to do what many do on a daily basis.

Your issues about Activation are based mostly on ignorance.
Activation is rarely a problem for the typical user.
The typical user changes no hardware on their computer to make
activation an issue.
People that change motherboards are not typical.
At that point they should be researching cause and effect before
undertaking such a major change.

Activation was never intended to stop a determined thief (pirate).
If you believe it was, please post the source.
On the other hand activation was partially intended to stop and has to
a degree succeeded in stopping casual piracy.
Casual piracy was usually people that did not know Windows was
licensed for a single computer and thus installed the single license
on many friends and relatives computers.
The evidence for this is in the newsgroups regularly when people
attempt to install Windows XP on more than one computer and then
decide not to or buy another license. 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"Public posting" <hey@hey.hey> wrote in message 
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> "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message 
> news:uF8DuLNsEHA.2720@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> And yet with all the choices, you use what you feel is best.
>> You posted using Microsoft products.
>
> "All the choices"?  Realistically, what choices do I have?  Name 
> them...
>
> Lindows?  Hah....  They are so incompetent they can't even keep 
> their name.
>
> Mandrake?  SuSE?
>
> The reality is that Linux isn't suitable for the general desktop and 
> wont be for years to come.  In spite of what the fanatics say, even 
> for my home system, a lot of what I do can't be done under Linux.
>
> And there's no point in buying a mac, because that's only a slight 
> step above what Linux gives you but you pay 5 times the price for 
> lower performance.
>
> And the "ReactOS" certainly isn't far enough along to use.  (For 
> those that don't know, ReactOS is an early development of an 
> opensource clone of WinNT.)
>
> The reality is that at the moment, if you actually want to *use* a 
> computer, there is no other choice but Microsoft.  And you can't 
> even stay with Win98 because Microsoft stopped providing security 
> patches, and too many other programs have arbitrarily decided not to 
> run on anything but XP.
>
>
> For the record though... I bought XP Pro specifically because of the 
> longer product support cycle over the home version.  I intend for 
> this to be the last Microsoft OS I buy.  I fully intend to use it 
> for the next several years until I am forced to upgrade by 
> LongHorn's sucessor (shudder) or until Linux becomes usable on my 
> desktop.
=---

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