Re: Install the Genuine Windows Validation Component

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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Q: "MS assumes you are guilty of piracy unless you prove otherwise,
> something you don't care to address."
>
> A: False assumption.

True assumption.

> MSFT is only interested in making sure valid
> licensing is in effect on one's computer.

Same thing.

> Microsoft software is licensed
> to you, not sold.

I paid money for it and got a receipt. I paid for something, didn't I?

> Your right to use the license is spelled out in the EULA
> both in the Product and with future updates.

"make sure licensing is in effect" is different from assuming piracy? Please
explain, I could use a good laugh.
>
> Q: "Are you really that logic impaired, Carey?"
>
> A: Yes, when it comes to irrational logic espoused by those who
> make-up silly statements!

You're the one who doesn't understand logic. Maybe if I go slowly.

I buy the software/licence, whatever you want to call it. First I have to
activate it to prove it is legit even though I just paid for it from a
reputable dealer and have a receipt. Then, if I want patches or downloads I
have to prove it is legit again. Get it yet? Pirates don't have to do any of
the above. Only customers who pay for the license/software or whatever you
want to call it have to jump through hoops to continue using the
license/software or whatever you want to call it. If the activation and/or
validation messes up, the paying customer has to jump through hoops to be
ABLE TO USE THE SOFTWARE/LICENSE HE OR SHE HAS PAID FOR and some idiot on
the phone may decide that he or she doesn't like me and not activate or
validate it.

Ergo, to anyone that is not logic impaired like you, MS assumes you have not
got legit software/license or whatever you want to call it and insists that
the burden of proof is on the buyer.

Why can't you understand this? How can you accept this MS policy as if it
were normal?

Alias
>
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
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> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Alias" wrote:
>
> | 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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