On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Andy Gallant wrote:
While I certainly appreciate Microsoft's piracy problems, and the negative impact that these have both on the company and consumers, I believe that the approach represented by this kind of escalation on the part of Microsoft and others -- into what basically amounts to a perpetual anti-piracy surveillance regime embedded within already purchased consumer equipment -- is entirely unacceptable.
Entirely consistent. This is exactly what Robert Mugabe, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Il-sung, Omar al-Bashir, or even Joe Stalin would do in a similar situation.
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