Why Only On One PC?

"Crusty "Old B@stard"" wrote in message
...
Yes! They make it inconvenient to put it on your wife's computer when you
have already put it on your computer.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

Upgrading your computer is an inconvenience too but only for bonafide users.
People who use cracked versions are not inconvenienced by the fact that MS
dictates that XP can only be installed on one computer.

Terrific PR, this one.

Alias


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
...
Greetings --

This bonafide user isn't the least bit upset that Microsoft has
finally started to take steps (baby steps, with WPA, granted) to put a
stop to software piracy. I also know better than trying to compare
the license usage of copyrighted intellectual property with a banana.

Bruce Chambers

Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per chance?
WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

Quote: "If Bill Gates had a penny for every time Windows has crashed....oh
wait, he does."

"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Crusty "Old B@stard"" wrote in
message
...
Yes! They make it inconvenient to put it on your wife's computer when
you
have already put it on your computer.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

Upgrading your computer is an inconvenience too but only for bonafide
users.
People who use cracked versions are not inconvenienced by the fact that MS
dictates that XP can only be installed on one computer.

Terrific PR, this one.

Alias


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
...
Greetings --

This bonafide user isn't the least bit upset that Microsoft has
finally started to take steps (baby steps, with WPA, granted) to put
a
stop to software piracy. I also know better than trying to compare
the license usage of copyrighted intellectual property with a banana.

Bruce Chambers

Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance?
WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias












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Greetings --

Let's put the responsibility where it lies, shall we? We
bonafide, honest customers are not inconvenienced by WPA. We're
inconvenienced by the acts of the software pirates who have made WPA
and other copy protection schemes necessary. Just as we
inconvenienced by having to lock our homes and cars to keep common
thieves out -- it's not the manufacturer of the locks and automobiles
who are the root cause of the inconvenience, it's the dishonesty of
others. Just as we resent having to pay taxes to keep convicted
criminals behind bars.


Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance? WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

Greetings --

You still haven't demonstrated how WPA causes any inconvenience to
bonafide users. WPA is almost entirely automatic and invisible to the
typical user. How is this inconvenient? WPA is, in fact, a lot more
"convenient" than a lot of other copy protection methods used by other
software manufacturers.

Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Crusty "Old B@stard"" wrote in
message
...
Yes! They make it inconvenient to put it on your wife's computer
when you
have already put it on your computer.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

Upgrading your computer is an inconvenience too but only for
bonafide users.
People who use cracked versions are not inconvenienced by the fact
that MS
dictates that XP can only be installed on one computer.

Terrific PR, this one.

Alias


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
...
Greetings --

This bonafide user isn't the least bit upset that Microsoft
has
finally started to take steps (baby steps, with WPA, granted)
to put a
stop to software piracy. I also know better than trying to
compare
the license usage of copyrighted intellectual property with a
banana.

Bruce Chambers

Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance?
WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count
on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of
usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

"Bruce Chambers" wrote
Greetings --

Let's put the responsibility where it lies, shall we? We
bonafide, honest customers are not inconvenienced by WPA. We're
inconvenienced by the acts of the software pirates who have made WPA
and other copy protection schemes necessary.

Are you serious? Regardless of the reason, WPA is an inconvenience for
bonafide users and isn't one for users of cracked versions.

Just as we
inconvenienced by having to lock our homes and cars to keep common
thieves out -- it's not the manufacturer of the locks and automobiles
who are the root cause of the inconvenience, it's the dishonesty of
others. Just as we resent having to pay taxes to keep convicted
criminals behind bars.


Bruce Chambers

Gosh, so when is Linux coming up with a WPA?

LOL!

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance? WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

Greetings --

Let's put the responsibility where it lies, shall we? We
bonafide, honest customers are not inconvenienced by WPA. We're
inconvenienced by the acts of the software pirates who have made WPA
and other copy protection schemes necessary. Just as we
inconvenienced by having to lock our homes and cars to keep common
thieves out -- it's not the manufacturer of the locks and automobiles
who are the root cause of the inconvenience, it's the dishonesty of
others. Just as we resent having to pay taxes to keep convicted
criminals behind bars.


Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance? WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

Greetings --

You still haven't demonstrated how WPA causes any inconvenience to
bonafide users. WPA is almost entirely automatic and invisible to the
typical user. How is this inconvenient? WPA is, in fact, a lot more
"convenient" than a lot of other copy protection methods used by other
software manufacturers.

Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Crusty "Old B@stard"" wrote in
message
...
Yes! They make it inconvenient to put it on your wife's computer
when you
have already put it on your computer.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

Upgrading your computer is an inconvenience too but only for
bonafide users.
People who use cracked versions are not inconvenienced by the fact
that MS
dictates that XP can only be installed on one computer.

Terrific PR, this one.

Alias


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
...
Greetings --

This bonafide user isn't the least bit upset that Microsoft
has
finally started to take steps (baby steps, with WPA, granted)
to put a
stop to software piracy. I also know better than trying to
compare
the license usage of copyrighted intellectual property with a
banana.

Bruce Chambers

Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance?
WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count
on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of
usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

"Bruce Chambers" wrote
Greetings --

Let's put the responsibility where it lies, shall we? We
bonafide, honest customers are not inconvenienced by WPA. We're
inconvenienced by the acts of the software pirates who have made WPA
and other copy protection schemes necessary.

Are you serious? Regardless of the reason, WPA is an inconvenience for
bonafide users and isn't one for users of cracked versions.

Just as we
inconvenienced by having to lock our homes and cars to keep common
thieves out -- it's not the manufacturer of the locks and automobiles
who are the root cause of the inconvenience, it's the dishonesty of
others. Just as we resent having to pay taxes to keep convicted
criminals behind bars.


Bruce Chambers

Gosh, so when is Linux coming up with a WPA?

LOL!

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance? WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

Greetings --

Let's put the responsibility where it lies, shall we? We
bonafide, honest customers are not inconvenienced by WPA. We're
inconvenienced by the acts of the software pirates who have made WPA
and other copy protection schemes necessary. Just as we
inconvenienced by having to lock our homes and cars to keep common
thieves out -- it's not the manufacturer of the locks and automobiles
who are the root cause of the inconvenience, it's the dishonesty of
others. Just as we resent having to pay taxes to keep convicted
criminals behind bars.


Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance? WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

Greetings --

You still haven't demonstrated how WPA causes any inconvenience to
bonafide users. WPA is almost entirely automatic and invisible to the
typical user. How is this inconvenient? WPA is, in fact, a lot more
"convenient" than a lot of other copy protection methods used by other
software manufacturers.

Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Crusty "Old B@stard"" wrote in
message
...
Yes! They make it inconvenient to put it on your wife's computer
when you
have already put it on your computer.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

Upgrading your computer is an inconvenience too but only for
bonafide users.
People who use cracked versions are not inconvenienced by the fact
that MS
dictates that XP can only be installed on one computer.

Terrific PR, this one.

Alias


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
...
Greetings --

This bonafide user isn't the least bit upset that Microsoft
has
finally started to take steps (baby steps, with WPA, granted)
to put a
stop to software piracy. I also know better than trying to
compare
the license usage of copyrighted intellectual property with a
banana.

Bruce Chambers

Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance?
WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count
on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of
usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

"Bruce Chambers" wrote
Greetings --

Let's put the responsibility where it lies, shall we? We
bonafide, honest customers are not inconvenienced by WPA. We're
inconvenienced by the acts of the software pirates who have made WPA
and other copy protection schemes necessary.

Are you serious? Regardless of the reason, WPA is an inconvenience for
bonafide users and isn't one for users of cracked versions.

Just as we
inconvenienced by having to lock our homes and cars to keep common
thieves out -- it's not the manufacturer of the locks and automobiles
who are the root cause of the inconvenience, it's the dishonesty of
others. Just as we resent having to pay taxes to keep convicted
criminals behind bars.


Bruce Chambers

Gosh, so when is Linux coming up with a WPA?

LOL!

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance? WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

gigantic snip of whining

Windows XP operating system is not like an orange, or a banana to use one of
the more ridiculous examples from an earlier post. It is an operating
system, an intellectual property that is not sold per se, but rented or
leased to be used in one system. If you don't like the terms of use of the
system, don't use it. Get with Al Gore, who invented the internet after
all, and come up with a system that uses binary codes of zeros and ones to
do something useful, copyright it, and sell it.


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Greetings --

Let's put the responsibility where it lies, shall we? We
bonafide, honest customers are not inconvenienced by WPA. We're
inconvenienced by the acts of the software pirates who have made WPA
and other copy protection schemes necessary. Just as we
inconvenienced by having to lock our homes and cars to keep common
thieves out -- it's not the manufacturer of the locks and automobiles
who are the root cause of the inconvenience, it's the dishonesty of
others. Just as we resent having to pay taxes to keep convicted
criminals behind bars.


Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance? WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...


Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias

"Jone Doe" wrote

gigantic snip of whining

Windows XP operating system is not like an orange, or a banana to use one
of
the more ridiculous examples from an earlier post. It is an operating
system, an intellectual property that is not sold per se, but rented or
leased to be used in one system. If you don't like the terms of use of
the
system, don't use it. Get with Al Gore, who invented the internet after
all, and come up with a system that uses binary codes of zeros and ones to
do something useful, copyright it, and sell it.

Then why does Microsoft call it a "product"??? A banana is a product, isn't
it? One pays for a product and one can do whatever one wants to unless it's
computer software? And don't tell me they don't call their software a
product rather than a license because I just read on my legitimate copy of
XP Pro where there is an email for *product* support, not *rental* support.

No wonder MS has never taken anyone to court; they'd lose.

Alias

Greetings --

You still haven't demonstrated how WPA causes any inconvenience to
bonafide users. WPA is almost entirely automatic and invisible to the
typical user. How is this inconvenient? WPA is, in fact, a lot more
"convenient" than a lot of other copy protection methods used by other
software manufacturers.

Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Crusty "Old B@stard"" wrote in
message
...
Yes! They make it inconvenient to put it on your wife's computer
when you
have already put it on your computer.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

Upgrading your computer is an inconvenience too but only for
bonafide users.
People who use cracked versions are not inconvenienced by the fact
that MS
dictates that XP can only be installed on one computer.

Terrific PR, this one.

Alias


"Alias" wrote in message
...

"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
...
Greetings --

This bonafide user isn't the least bit upset that Microsoft
has
finally started to take steps (baby steps, with WPA, granted)
to put a
stop to software piracy. I also know better than trying to
compare
the license usage of copyrighted intellectual property with a
banana.

Bruce Chambers

Just curious, who invented this "license usage"? Microsoft, per
chance?
WPA
does not stop piracy. The *only* thing it does is inconvenience
bonafide
customers.

Alias
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"Alias" wrote in message
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Somehow, I don't think that every product carries rules of
usage
with them.
For example, a banana. Chiquita Banana could care less if two
people
eat it,
no one eats it or you use it as a dildo and then smoke the
peels.
After all
you *did* pay for the product and it is therefore *yours*.
Unfortunately,
the rules of usage for an MS OS doesn't stop piracy and only
gets
bonafide
customers upset with Microsoft for the inconvenience and
probably
don't have
much sympathy with MS' excuse that they're "losing money to
piracy"
when
their CEO is the richest man in the world.

Alias