Christopher Fisk wrote:
Normally this wouldn't be an issue for the kid, he would just ride his
bicycle, except that all the kids friends ever wanted to do was play
ball. They were afraid of the bicycle.
You _have_ to be kidding me. WGA takes less than 10 seconds to do. After
that, you don't have to do anything or think about it.
Nobody except people who love to hate MS or wear tinfoil hats is "afraid
of the bicycle" as you put it.
Also, your insinuation that Thane supports the piracy of any products in
his business is appalling. If Thane is on tight margins for updates and
First off, I NEVER insinuated that. I like Thane and respect him, and
respect the fact that he is an OEM trying to survive in a highly
competitive world. I used to work at a whitebox OEM, so I know the deal.
spyware removal, etc, then adding a part where He has to be there for
interaction during an update is eating into his profit. This update
STOP THE PRESSES!!! Less than 1 minute of his time is spent in
activating WGA. Add an extra $1 ($10 CDN, heh) to the price of the
system to cover the effort it takes to do the extra mouse click. If
things are that hard up that you're micromanaging your system builds
down to the second, then there's something vastly wrong with the way
you're doing business.
doesn't stop the pirates, but it does cause annoyance to the legitimate
users. It fails the sanity test.
People who are using pirated Windows are *not* legitimate users.
Considering that MS is offering a nice discount on a genuine XP licence
for those who willfully pirated XP, and a free licence for those users
who were duped into buying a hot copy of XP from a black market
retailer, I'd day that it's a pretty generous (and sane) deal.
- Re: [H] Microsoft's "Genuine Advantage" Cracke... Ben Ruset
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