Re: Install the Genuine Windows Validation Component


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> Ever been stopped for a road violation?

I haven't owned a car in 15 years and when I did I never got stopped.

> The first thing the
> law enforcement officer checks is the validity of your driver's
> license and registration. No big deal for law-abiding folks!

Um, first, your comparison is lame, very lame. With your "logic" every car
owner will have to be checked but, as you point out, it only happens when
there is a "road violation". How is a computer user who paid for his or her
software "violating" anything by downloading patches and thus justifying the
validation procedure (according to your lame analogy)?

Second, as activation has messed up, so can validation unless you are saying
that MS will start visiting homes and business to check software.

Third, MS assumes you are guilty of piracy unless you prove otherwise,
something you don't care to address. Why is that? And, if it messes up, it
IS a big deal to the person who paid good money for a product who now has to
jump through hoops to get a patch instead of USING the software he or she
PAID FOR.

Fourth, no pirates will be affected by either activation or validation, only
the paying customers will be affected.

Are you really that logic impaired, Carey?

Alias


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> "Alias" wrote:
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> | Another case of paying customers considered to be pirates until they
> prove
> | otherwise.
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> | So, first we have to activate. Then, if we want patches, we have to
> | validate. What's next?
> |
> | Alias
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