Reactivation Necessary

[Andre Da Costa]

Think about owning a business and losing 12 billion dollars a year on
piracy, and you have to take a cut out of employees salaries and raise the
price of your products at the same time?

Andre

 

[Al Smith]

I do not agree that someone who has been made aware of license terms and

seeks to evade them is innocent. I do agree that MSoft should have a
well thought out and reasonably priced family license (and have said so
to MSoft at a very high level)

The day Microsoft abandons Product Activation on Windows, and
allows freer personal use of the software by the person who bought
it, is the day I will consider buying a Microsoft product once
again. I've got nothing against Gates restricting businesses from
buying one copy and putting it on a thousand computers, or
preventing pirates from buying one copy and selling it a thousand
times, but it makes no sense to prevent the average guy from
putting one copy on his two computers, or transferring it from an
old computer to a new computer -- of giving a copy to his
brother-in-law, for that matter.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Al;
It makes sense because they made Windows.
And as such they get to determine how it is licensed and sold.

If you understand the reasoning for businesses, you understand the
reasons for personal.
If you do not understand the reason for personal, you also do not
understand the reason for business.

As long as Windows is retail, there is nothing preventing anyone
transferring Windows from one computer to another as far as licensing
is concerned.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


The day Microsoft abandons
Product Activation on Windows, and

 

[Jimmy]

LMAO!

Since M$ implemented PA on virtually all of its products, piracy has fallen over 80% . Since they have not lowered the prices (rather raised them) on their products, namely Office and Windows, with the dramatic drop in pirated M$ products, you'd think that they'd drop the prices, and not lower employee's salaries; PA has had no effect on how M$ will keep its money. So now I see how your M$ sycophantic skull fücking shines through!

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Where are you buying Office and Windows at a higher price?
The prices I find are almost exactly the same as previous versions
going back to Windows 95 for operating systems, several years for
Office.
Taking into account inflation, no increase actually means a price
drop.
I do not know how that impacts the figures you gave since they seem
farther away from anything I have heard.
Please cite your sources.

But then again, your uncalled for insults are possibly blinding you to
some facts.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


LMAO!

Since M$ implemented PA on virtually all of its products, piracy has
fallen over 80% . Since they have not lowered the prices (rather
raised them) on their products, namely Office and Windows, with the
dramatic drop in pirated M$ products, you'd think that they'd drop the
prices, and not lower employee's salaries; PA has had no effect on how
M$ will keep its money. So now I see how your M$ sycophantic skull
fücking shines through!

 

[kurttrail]

Al;
It makes sense because they made Windows.
And as such they get to determine how it is licensed and sold.

"Any individual may reproduce a copyrighted work for a "fair use"; the
copyright owner does not possess the exclusive right to such a use." - US
Supreme Court

But they don't have the right to determine how it is used by individuals for
private non-commercial use.

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