Re: Windows XP Product Activation...

Stephen wrote:
> kurttrail wrote:
>>> Bob I wrote:
>>>> Perhaps you would prefer MS instituted hardware keys (dongles)?
>>>
>>> Like the pirates wouldn't get around that too! Please!
>>>
>>> Copy-protection:
>>>
>>> a.) Doesn't work.
>>> b.) Ends up stopping more legitimate users than illegitimate by a
>>> large margin.
>>> c.) Adds to the cost of developing products so that the price of
>>> the product doesn't decrease over time.
>>> d.) The software piracy rate was much higher in 1994 before the PC
>>> boom really got going than in 2000 when MS first introduced
>>> copy-protection into the mainstream.
>>> http://www.kurttrail.com/kblog/kblogarch/00000002.php
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Gosh, what a wonderful way to ruin an afternoon, messing around
>>>>> with activation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Activation does not stop piracy. It only inconveniences PAYING
>>>>> CUSTOMERS! Alias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peace!
>>> Kurt
>>> Self-anointed Moderator
>>> microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
>>> http://microscum.com/mscommunity
>>> "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
>>> "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
>
> Yeah, but in 1994 Microsoft was probably encouraging some piracy in an
> effort to get Windows everywhere. There was probably profit in piracy
> for Microsoft. Therefore their Windows and Office CD-ROMs could be
> outright copied. One Upgrade CD-ROM bought at Business Depot could
> clean install the entire office. Once Microsoft achieved Windows
> everywhere, there was more profit in discouraging casual copying. Why
> do they still release "corporate" versions that do not require
> activation? It's like handing the pirates a ticket to pirate. Why
> isn't Microsoft outraged at itself for making it easy for pirates to
> pirate? It's because when all is said and done it is not in their
> profit margin's interest to not supply corporate versions, not having
> it might discourage corps from upgrading because of the inherent
> difficulties in the WPA procedure.
>
> I doubt Microsoft really care about the moral issues - although they
> should [and if they did you wouldn't see corporate no-WPA versions] -
> what it looks at is the profit issue. So you see the behaviour where
> Microsoft actually suppies the pirates with copies of Windws XP that
> do not require activation. I encourage Microsoft to behave uprightly
> morally. It really is a fantastic corporation in a fantastic industry
> and the company has the wherewithall to be a great leader in every
> way.
>
> Anyway, Microsoft does as it wills with the software it writes. In my
> opinion, I think that is OK. Free country. Freedom of the intellect
> of which software is an expression. It's the legal system that I have
> issues with in this piracy regard - I don't think it should play
> handmaiden.

LOL! MS is a proven IP thief while not one of its home customer has
ever been charged with, let alone found to have done anything wrong for
using their copies of software for their own private non-commercial use.
Its like having Enron in charge of the nations energy policies!

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"


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