On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In protest at the 'Microsoft tax' -cannot (in many places) buy a > computer without windows, but cannot get a refund when you refuse > license. > > http://www.windowsrefund.net > > Details under "What's happening" (court case against Toshiba > (America) in New York rescheduled for June 30th) > > Paul M.
This is one of the bits in the XP EULA that I always find rather, er, scary - at best... <QUOTE FROM XP EULA> You may also need to reactivate the Product if you modify your computer hardware or alter the Product. There are technological measures in this Product that are designed to prevent unlicensed or illegal use of the Product. You agree that we may use those measures. </END QUOTE> The term "draconian" constantly comes to mind here... -- Sat Jun 28 23:25:00 EST 2003 23:25:00 up 3 days, 23:11, 4 users, load average: 1.03, 1.07, 1.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * gyroscope, n.: A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpindicular to each other and the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin. -- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary
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