I am just play'n fun.
I can't bash MS anymore then they bash themselves. probably had one guy from MS saying that stolen software will not be supported, and then you probably have another guy from MS saying how they care more about the internet community and will make patches aviable to everyone.
So MS is just full of it again, and even if they are or aren't in reality its not like it matters.
Just remember back when WinXP was not released yet and people were freaking out about the "horrible horrible" protection sceme and how WinXP sucks and how they aren't going to use it, blah blah blah. Nobody was going to get rid of win98, it worked fine, and activation was such a pain in the arse etc etc. Then corporate edition came out and they all shut up and stole that OS just like they stole Win98 SE and Win95 before that. Now when ever somebody even mentions "coporate edition" everybody automaticly assumes that they are talking about piracy in one form or another. Even people who are asking about it for legitament reasons get flamed right away till they explain themselves.
Then on top of that MS talks about just wanting to protect their own intellectual property when they themselves stole so much from other people and scammed lots of companies in partnerships. You won't here half of what goes on because later they just settle out of court and sign NDA's and everything is hidden behind PR like 95% of what goes on in this industry. But the lawsuites that do end up going to court are very telling. Hypocrates.
But then again, it's not like MS is the only people acting this way, and they do put a lot of work into Windows so I respect their wishes with their software. They made it, its theirs, if it wasn't for B.G. it wouldn't exist in the first place, so they can do what they want with it.
To me why would anybody be stupid enough to be dishonest and go thru all the trouble and waste the time to steal a OS when you have perfectly good free ones aviable?
Bunch of lamers. People who purposely steal software are as big a dorks as MS is trying to milk their customers for as much money as possible.
I wasn't MS bashing, I was expressing my cynicism to the whole thing.
Personally I think that MS should release the 2nd service pack for everybody to use, but insert a posion pill that will in a few months will bring up a activation notification.
This activation notice will give people a chance to call MS and activate it if it's legal or purchase a discounted OEM liscence if it's a illegal copy. A memo should be "accidently" "leaked" describing a painfull and technically involved way of defeating this 2sp-based activation sceme.
Then after the activation will be "cracked" and on the April 1st of every year the OS will e-mail MS technical details about the OS, the Mac Address, cpu, motherboard type, harddrive type, and other objects used in fingerprinting a machine for the original activation.
Then the OS will quietly and silently corrupt itself and everything on the drive and anything it has access too.
Then when people finally give up and try to activate a real version of MS their computer will be recorded and documented as using stolen software. In order to activate WinXP then the bastards will have to pay for TWO full priced liscenced of windows. One for the stolen copy, one for the legit copy.
Now that's a activation sceme I would use if I was incharge of MS.
