Janet, > If I am reading you correctly, what you are suggesting Jim is > unacceptable, you know that, but people do.
What are you saying, that I am doing something that contravenes my contract with MS? I don't see how, I don;t have XP installed from those installe disks, all purchased legally, on more than the number of machines that I have. And the old machines are dead. In fact right now I only have one machine that did not come with XP. > What they don't do is tell someone how to do it. All this is > "whatifs". We know that people pick up on things on the > internet. Consider the effect of it on those who have no other > way but to purchase and pay the price. Pirate copies push up the > price in my very humble opinion. I've snipped a lot of your mail > in consideration of those who don't have an always on connection. Are you saying that I was defending pirating? I was not! All my copies of XP were purchased at the standard price, no bargains. I make copies and use the copies for installing, never the originals. I don't want to risk damaging them. Every once in awhile a copy is damaged so that it won't install. I destroy that disk and make a new copy. This is entirely legal, fair use. MS says that we do not own the software, we are only licensing it. So they should be willing to provide a new disk for some modest service charge, since we already paid the license fee for a single copy. I don't think that pirated copies have much impact on the price of software. The price of any program is set by the expectations of the software company. If the disk(s) and box cost them $5 I would be surprised. Once the development cost is recouped from sales, the rest is clear profit. Well mostly. If you think that support is costly try to get some that is really helpful. And of course hard copy docs are practically non existent. I suppose you might blame that on pirating too. Jim ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/67folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
