Re: A whine about MS and WGA

Today Jeff commented courteously on the subject at hand

Microsoft has really gone too far, I totally agree!! In
fact;even with a valid XP copy; I still totally diagree
with their underhanded methods. It is up to me as to what
programs I want to have installed and I didnt catch it at
first,because at a glance it looked alot like the Windows
Genuine Validation tool; and I figured it was just a patch.
Then I come to find out that;# 1-there is no easy uninstall
in add/remove(in fact if you try;it states that you cannot
remove KB905474) and#2 (which is what truly offends me) it
reports back to MS ;everytime I connect to the internet;
it's "findings" . MS better straighten this out or Apple
and open source will have alot of new customers. I'm lucky
enough to have the luxury of not having to use windows; but
I truly feel that MS is going to shoot themselves in the
foot over this. Especially when the media catches on. Jeff

While I obviously agree - in principle - I am a practical man. M
$ didn't do this on a whim. You, me, and the hundreds of
millions of people that have made him a couple hundred
/billionaire/ willingly gave him your Visa card and eagerly
snapped up each new, more invasive/instrusive "authentication"
scheme.

There really isn't a viable solution except to boycott anything
M$, which right now will be about as successful as bailing out
the Pacific Ocean. But, the Chinese say "a journey of 1000 miles
begins with a single step", and that step is to vote with your
Visa card, and /not/ whine in a M$-sponsored peer-to-peer NG.

--
ATM, aka Jerry

"Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this the War Room!" - From
the movie 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb'
.

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