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| reply to Ikarasu
Re: Problem was fixed & cries for WGA to be eliminated are ....
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How long did it take crackers to get rid of WGA? Not even a week. The only people who suffered because of this outage, are the legit users.
That's pretty much true of all copy protection schemes. The funny part about it is I think the Microsoft upon which their huge empire was built used to understand that. There wasn't any protection to speak of in Windows or Office prior to XP.
Now that there alternatives to Windows are more and more viable (Apple is gaining a lot of ground, and Linux continues to mature), they wait until NOW to put the screws down to pirates? To jack the price up really high on a full featured OS (Ultimate, the only one that suits my needs having both Remote Desktop and Media Center, where the old Media Center was just fine)?
It has never been popular to admit to being a fan of Microsoft, but I used to be one. But Microsoft's think tanks seem to on the wrong warpath lately and its sad to see. |
