IE7 May Be Illegal

[Pe]

IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the history
of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

Now, this may seem logical from an anti piracy standpoint as a monopolist.
But ask yourself, if you would agree to validate every piece of MS software
when you installed it against every other piece of software you own
including the OS.

Given the global legal punishment that was meted out on MS for insisting
that IE "could not be separated from the OS" in its drive to kill off
competition, this is quite a randy, flirtatious thumb to the courts of the
world.

Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself
from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.

Add DRM to the picture and you see where MS is headed, use their tools to
do anything and you will be quite the licensee indeed.
As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.

Its really a great indication of the direction of the industry when new
products are really just stalking horses for more legal entanglement.


http://bullardsbar.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/ie7-may-be-illegal/

 

[Dave B.]

This is not the first piece of software to do that, Defender does it, the
Shared Computer Toolkit does it, and there are more, why all of a sudden is
this an issue for you?

 

[Frankster]

Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself

from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.

Yep. You are right. MS would have to give your money back for the purchase
price of IE7!

-Frank

 

[Gordon]

Pe wrote:

As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.

Oh no it's not - not for the discerning it's not.....

 

[zaldi]

troll
1. v.,n. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on
Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post
itself. Derives from the phrase “trolling for newbies” which in turn comes
from mainstream “trolling”, a style of fishing in which one trails bait
through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a
post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even
more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy
and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for
the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT.

2. n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts
specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion
list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a
discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real
interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter
flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no
redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form
of life on the net, as in, “Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll.” Compare
kook.

3. n. [Berkeley] Computer lab monitor. A popular campus job for CS students.
Duties include helping newbies and ensuring that lab policies are followed.
Probably so-called because it involves lurking in dark cavelike corners.

Some people claim that the troll (sense 1) is properly a narrower category
than flame bait, that a troll is categorized by containing some assertion
that is wrong but not overtly controversial. See also Troll-O-Meter.

The use of ‘troll’ in any of these senses is a live metaphor that readily
produces elaborations and combining forms. For example, one not infrequently
sees the warning “Do not feed the troll” as part of a followup to troll
postings.



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[DatabaseBen]

put your copy of ie7 on a cd and throw it into the boston river....!!!

and then use another browser in Proooottttteeeeessssstttttt !

 

[Richard Urban]

Anything that Microsoft considers an addition to the operating system, over
and above what is really necessary for the operating system to operate, they
are giving only to those with legitimate operating systems installed.

Why should they keep making the illegal operating system equal to the legal
ones. There is nothing that says the must keep pace here, as Internet
Explorer operates just fine in Windows XP (illegal version).

You steal my T.V. A few months later the company sends me an improved
remote unit. Must I send it to you so that you may stay current?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

When you think about iit, acquiring a product in the manner detailed on this
page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass

might be considered 'fair game' in the business world. Or then again, it
might not. Depends on your viewpoint, I guess.

But to then take that same product and use it as a means of lambasting those
who fail to pay YOU in full...

Very dangerous moral ground, I'd say!

Luke 6:42

 

[caver1]

put your copy of ie7 on a cd and throw it into the boston river....!!!

and then use another browser in Proooottttteeeeessssstttttt !

You mean the Charles River?

 

[DatabaseBen]

You mean the Charles River?

 

[xfile]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. Glad to learn something today

 

[HeyBub]

IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the
history of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

You misunderstand.

IE7 is PART of the operating system, not some stand-alone bit. Internet
Explorer hasn't been a separate product for some time now.