On Monday 21 January 2002 09:20 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote : > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:00:17 -0500 > > Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Sometimes things like this get exaggerated, and since I only have second > | hand hearsay, I'd like to confirm if this is true or not. > > Don't know. I saw pirate copies in Saudi Arabia that people were > installing. They came with a license key. I thought this was the one where > you had to call MS to get a key. That is the case for, say, the educational > version of XP Office. But, apparently, not for XP the OS. >
Yes, it is so, but of course, crackers have found ways around this. Certain keys apparently don't require the phone call. You can search for these keys on the Internet with simple web searches.. it's pathetic. > These were XP Professional copies of both English and English/Arabic. > Going pirate price about $7 USD. In Saudi Arabia, pirate software is priced > per CD. > What a waste of a good CD.... _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
