 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to Carr
Re: Automotive Gauge Cluster Design Runs Linux said by Carr:Yeah Matt I think you're right......and after an oil change or tires or brake pad replacement then you would have to re verify the Windoze installation and if it failed then you would spend 4 hours on the phone with someone in some other part of the world swearing that you were who you were supposed to be and the car wasnt a pirated clone....... I feel like the "Windows Defender™" sometimes, but let's be fair. Out of hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of installs I've done, I've had to call Microsoft for one machine and the whole process took all of 5 whopping minutes. And they have no idea where or how you've installed it, only that the hardware hash doesn't match. I've used my laptop's XP OEM key across all sorts of machines I play with at home and yet, not a single problem having MS re-activate it. Same with the original Office 2007 key I have. I activated it numerous times throughout the history of my machines, yet I've never had them deny me a re-activation. (And to be honest, it's been activated a few times on machines that aren't even mine. You get 10 activations before you have to call.)
If you have an issue with Microsoft requiring you to activate your software, deride that based upon its own merits, but when you (not literally you, a figuratively you) exaggerate how horrible the activation process is, you make it harder for me to suggest an open source product for a project because it creates a bad perception of Linux as a whole. I've run into this first hand numerous times in my career and had to fight to implement the Linux solution. I won all of them minus a single Fortune 500 company. I wasn't allowed to mention open source (the word Linux specifically) when I described the technical aspects of the project. I almost had to deploy JBoss on Windows Server because of it. Yikes! |
Carr
join:2003-06-20
Mobile, AL | LOLOLOLOL. Yep.....
Well.... I run Linux and have run both Linux and Windows for many years.... I stay out of the flame wars...I like SUSe but there are a lot of good distros out there.... as we speak Im loading XP Pro on VMWare on my Linux laptop. Ah well.
I dont have a dog in the fight  |
