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

From: XS11E (xs11eNO_at_SPAMyahoo.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:33:08 -0700

"Linda B" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in
news:#XtuvNnAFHA.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.

If you bought the required five copies, they'd sell four copies more.
How do you figure you've done them "no harm whatsoever"? You've stolen
an amount of money equal to the price of those four copies, if you can
justify that in your own mind fine but you'd still be a thief.

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