Re: MS Product Activation [OFF-TOPIC] (was: SWANH Conference 2001 )

2001-11-06 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 07:48:48PM -0500, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have also heard it said that the EULA for the latest release of MS > FrontPage forbids you from using FP to create or publish a web page > criticizing Microsoft or its products. I have not substantiated that

RE: MS Product Activation [OFF-TOPIC] (was: SWANH Conference 2001)

2001-11-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Tilly, Lawrence wrote: > I was not attempting to imply that the "evil corporation" is actually > collecting significant information from your machine. They may be, or they may not. Because it is closed source, we have little way of knowing. We will have to wait until (note

RE: MS Product Activation [OFF-TOPIC] (was: SWANH Conference 2001)

2001-11-05 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
Ben, I was not attempting to imply that the "evil corporation" is actually collecting significant information from your machine. I simply disagree with any product that requires a reactivation if you decide to upgrade to a different piece of hardware in your system. It should be no concern with M

Re: MS Product Activation [OFF-TOPIC] (was: SWANH Conference 2001)

2001-10-31 Thread Greg Dake
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 07:06 pm, Benjamin Scott wrote: > > Product activation has already been defeated. Microsoft states that > "Product Activation has yet to be cracked". They go on to say that the > techniques used to defeat product activation simply "disable" it; they do > not "crac

MS Product Activation [OFF-TOPIC] (was: SWANH Conference 2001)

2001-10-31 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Tilly, Lawrence wrote: > Especially if people bring up the privacy issues I've heard about > concerning XP (ie forcing you to let M$ know when you change your > hardware, etc). My apologies for a long, off-topic post, but I consider want to make sure Linux Advocates are arm