Re: WGA Ain't So Bad

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Sure,
I'll jump back into the fray(on my break),
You kill me;really!! :-) Methodology my dear Leythos; methodology.
Something that you;or ANYONE involved;have not been able to
refute;legitimize; or even come close to explaining. Why try to hide
KB905474? Why use deceitful methods to monitor someone?
And in response to your earlier post; yes if KB905474 was put up
legit-instead of trying to sneak it past everyone; I would then not have
such a problem with it. Being straightforward and telling a customer what is
expected;IS acceptable. The consumer would then at least;be able to make an
informed choice;as to if they wanted to "use" said software or;as you so
aptly put earlier; like it or leave it. And I wouldn't be suprised;if MANY
people that you believe;aren't impacted by WGA, would definitely(if they
could) seek alternatives to Microsoft's products.
Jeff
"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <4ejaa8F1eio9hU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, rhondalea@xxxxxxxxx says...
Leythos wrote:
Rhonda Lea Kirk wrote:

My thinking is not flawed, and I did address the same situation.

My EULA specifically says: "This EULA applies to updates,
supplements, add-on components, product support services, or
Internet-based services components, of the SOFTWARE that you may
obtain from...."

It does not say that I must accept these updates, etc., nor does it
say that I have agreed to an invasion of my privacy.

Yes, your thinking is flawed. There is nothing that says MS has to
provide updates, you personally elected to allow that function for
your own reasons.

No. My thinking is not flawed, and the argument you just made makes no
sense. The conclusion not only does not follow from the premise, it has
nothing to do with the premise.

What if I came in here and told you that you don't know dog$hit about
computers, Leythos? Wouldn't it be wrong of me to denigrate your
education and experience that way?

But you're doing exactly that to me in my area of expertise.

And the fact of the matter is that you can say my argument is flawed
until you're blue in the face, but I have never seen you make an
argument. Nor have I ever seen you refute the argument that is made to
you. Instead, you swerve off into a whole 'nother line of thought, which
totally diverts the discussion.

Nope, you're technical lack of understanding is getting in the way of
your area of expertise - since you don't have the technical side clear
you can't argue with facts.

You permitted automatic updates to work, you or the person that setup
your computer agreed to it, and that's where your logic is failing, you
don't get automatic updates if you don't agree to it to start with.

Oh, and I've refuted many posts about it, as have others, you're just
not listening:

1) WGA only seems to impact pirated copy users
2) WGA may (see 1 above) impact a small number of non-pirated copies,
but from all the posts/complaints I've read, it's been less than 1 out
of all the posts here. When you present people with the information to
check the validity of their license, check how they obtained it, that
they have no COA, no CD/Media, no restore partition/disk, you don't hear
from them again - problem appears to have resolve itself as a pirated
copy of xp
3) If you do identify a user as having a pirated copy, well, there isn't
much you can do for them.

There has been no wavering on my part, WGA works well, it detects
pirated copies, it does not cause problems on properly licensed
computers for masses of users, and it impacts what would seem to be less
than 1% (actually a lot smaller) of people using XP.

Want to try again?

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