On 15/01/14 12:31 AM, Aemilianus Kehler wrote:
If there just ISO without keys how is that piracy?
Microsoft doesn't distribute Win XP ISO files to its end customers, they
have to come from somewhere else....
Anything less then using a CD actually printed and pressed by Microsoft
or authorized OEM partners is infringement and also a license violation
to use.
And as I've pointed out in a previous post, there's no such thing as a
"generic" OEM CD for Win XP.
(later research I've done shows this might be different for Vista, 7,
and 8, but do your own research, even so, you have to actually have
legit pressed install media -- not a .iso file and a burn)
Every real OEM CD or hard drive restore media for XP is designed to only
work with the license stickers for that particular OEM only. Whitebox
OEM install media is paired with a specific set of stickers shipped in
the box with that media.
If you think I'm wrong, show me the "generic" OEM CD that you own that
was pressed in a Microsoft factory that will work with the HP OEM
stickers on the SKSP workstations.
The "generic" OEM CD's floating around in infringement-land are hacked
to have support for a wide range of OEM stickers on them.
Just because an install done with these CD passes online activation
("calling home") doesn't mean the rules for doing an OEM install were
followed.
Quite possibly such installations leave a trace as to what install media
was used.
All of this is why Microsoft has a program where they gladly charge
refurb shops who obtain machines with OEM stickers but no install media
a nice price for new install media and a second refurb sticker to put
next to the OEM one!
I know this because I did my homework when I did some mass refurb for
resale of machines from Skullspace 1.0.
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I don't say any of this to moralize in Microsoft's favour -- quite the
opposite. If you believe proprietary software is a blessed fountain of
innovation and quality centralized post-purchase bug and feature support
that the world needs flaws and all, then play by the proprietor's rules.
If you believe this kind of ridiculousness endemic to the proprietary
world is a scourage on humanity, then try to use the alternative
whenever you can and stop trying to paper over the inconvenience that
missing OEM media causes by making available infringing work arounds.
Let every activation where you phone home be a reminder that you don't
own your software, control your destiny, or have the ability to work
with other people in public in the true hacker spirit to change it for
the better.
Wake me up when WinXP source is on GitHub with a FLOSS license and I can
run
$ make WinXPGenericOEM.iso
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