[geeks] Jesus this guy could be me

[Kevin]

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There are scenarios when it's no fscking business of MS
what you are doing and it ends up affecting you.

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2779746,00.html

/KRM

On 18 Jan 2003 15:45:10 -0500
Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 14:59, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > My problem with activation is the software ability
> > to de-activate the software whenever they choose...
> > not the actual activation itself.  It's that sort
> > of parental oversight that I don't accept in
> > software for any purpose.
> 
> It's not "whenever they choose" there's no MS
> employee sitting around saying "i think i'll
> deactivate THESE XP machines today!"  It's when
> there's significant hardware changes.  (and the only
> time i've seen this is when XP is ghosted from one
> machine to another.)  At that point, all you need to
> do is reactivate.  Activation doesn't even require
> giving any personal information.
> 
> Besides, from what i've been told, you can reactivate
> the same CD-key a few times by calling microsoft
> without any problems, but i've not done that myself.
> 
> Once again, i'm not trying to say that windows XP is
> the best thing since sliced bread, just saying that
> it's not the evil thing that so many people make it
> out to be.  It's still a microsoft OS, so even if
> it's the best MS OS, it's still like being the
> world's fastest tortoise.
> 
> 	-Dan Sikorski
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