Re: Pirated XP, means-test everyone and every product with "income

From: Linda B (someone_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:18:40 -0800

Alias, you are needlessly confrontational, but you have a good point --
buying one copy of the OS and installing it on all five of my hypothetical
computers at home is doing Microsoft no harm whatsoever.

Wish I'd thought of that in my previous posts with Leythos... :p

--LB

ps - bait and switch? scam? melodrama, my friend... melodrama.

"Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.com> wrote in message
news:35lh91F4krbshU1@individual.net...
>
> "Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1c5f3af24c3ceff3989fef@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> | In article <OOxbI3kAFHA.2640@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>,
> | someone@microsoft.com says...
> | > While I do agree that pirating software of any kind is not a good
thing,
> and
> | > obviously punishable by law, I hear entirely too much talk on these
> forums
> | > of it being "immoral." Give me a break. It's software. If you want
to
> | > fight for righteousness,
> |
> | I take it that you don't really work for a living, that you've never
> | sold a product that you owned or made yourself.
> |
> | Wait till you start spreading that BS thinner and applying it to other
> | things - software is a work, so is a car,
>
> More than one person can use the same car and you own it, not have a
licence
> to use it.
>
> | so is a house,
>
> See above.
>
> | so is a watch
> | or a ring.
>
> See above, all are absurd comparisons. When we can really buy the software
> and use it as we see fit, your comparisons are valid.
>
> | There is no real difference in stealing from a big company
> | than a little company.
> |
> | --
> | --
> | spamfree999@rrohio.com
>
> Really? How about BUYING the product and using it on all of one's
computers.
> How is that stealing, using your examples above? Requiring licenses is
> stealing and a complete bait and switch, aka a SCAM.
> --
> Alias
>
> Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me.
> Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail.
>
>

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