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

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From: Alias (aka_at_maskedandanonymous.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:30:34 +0100

"Linda B" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%23XtuvNnAFHA.2572@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| 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.

The license idea is a scam. You never really own what you buy. You buy a
right to use it under MS's conditions. If that isn't a scam and highway
robbery, I don't know what is. Next, you won't even be able to have the CD.
You will have a subscription to Word, Outlook, etc. that you can only use on
the web. Outlook is going for 59.95 a year and is being offered first to
Hotmail accounts. Have you got your "Passport, product key and licence" so
you can use your computer yet?

Yeah, bait and switch. Most people don't even know an EULA exists and assume
for some reason that when they buy something like a car, house, ring, watch
or software that it is theirs and they are free to use them as the see fit.
MS and Adobe are the prime offenders and others are getting into the scam.
This is not to say that all software makers are rip off artists. My daughter
has all the Tombraider games and none of them have an EULA and all of them
can be installed on as many computers I can own without activation or
agreeing to a rip off "license to use". Why doesn't Microsoft say Rent our
Software and, instead, they say, Buy our Software? Bait and switch? 

-- 
Alias
Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me.
Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail.
|
| "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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