OK, I guess I've just missed the point. Can anyone show me a single instance where MS has prosecuted a home user for borrowing a key? -----Original message----- From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:53:51 -0500 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New MS rule
> At 02:25 PM 05/05/2005, CW wrote: > >Seriously (and here's where I will get catcalls) this is why I wish MS > >-did- have a way to force more people to literally upgrade; If you're > >still running Win98, etc. I'd prefer they almost say "sorry, we don't > >support that product at all anymore" > > They do for Win95. > > >You can say "oh, that's unfair" but call Ford and see if you can get parts > >for a Pinto. Or Chevy if you can get parts for a 68 whatever; you have to > >go aftermarket. > > But MS doesn't allow aftermarket, so that's not a fair comparison. If all > I do is Word Processing and Email, why should I have to upgrade my Pentium > 233 to XP (which would require a hardware upgrade as well?) Keeping the > auth number generator software costs MS nothing, and the support time is > easily covered under by the $15. > > If MS doesn't want to support their products, they should release them into > the public domain. > > >At a certain point, it's true of all products, software is not the > >exception to the rule. I've had to replace books because they were > >tattered (See: Hitchhiker's Guide, Discworld, Dune and numerous others). > > I don't think your analogy holds - this is more like losing the front cover > of a book, and being forced to buy a new copy if you want to read it > again. They still have the CD. > > T > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus] >
