btw, I am trying to emulate black screen of death in my virtualbox too, I don't understand what actually they are trying to impose, maybe they are giving friendly remainder to return few bucks back from you. The consequences they are trying to impose won't have any effect to actual user, which is real harm for freedom fighter like us. I remember people changing their system date on bios to continue use 30day trial version of windows xp home edition, clearly indicating our value for time. We are resistance to change "dunno maybe thats in our blood" ppl who can wait 4-5 second at each boot and feast their eye with cool genuine advantages logo at right corner of screen will be even happier when they see and talk about magical black screen that microsoft grant them every hour. It remind me the story of Minotauros The creature that resided in the twisting maze of the labyrinth, where he was offfered a regular sacrifice of youths and maids to satisfy his cannibalistic hunger. He was eventually destroyed by the hero Theseus. Microsoft is satisfying its hunger of monopoly and money by consuming and killing creativity of all users and developers. Lets hope some day we will be out of mercy and some hero Theseus be there. Or even better we can become theseus and save ppl from going and falling inside the maze ending up to be captivated by Minotauros. Ankur. On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:07 PM, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) wrote:
> We need to aware our Govt. soon. its obvious they are unaware...... > Its best time for them as well to start migrating with our support... > > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Jwalanta Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > this is indeed a positive sign as far as foss move is concerned.. > happy about it. > perhaps ppl will now start lookin for some (foss) alternatives.. > > ~jwalanta. > > > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Bibek Paudel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is true that Microsoft has introduced the Black Screen of Death > among Nepali users of Windows XP Professional, starting September 23. > They had a press conference yesterday to inform the introduction of > this feature. Yes, it is very disrespectful of the users of the > softwares. But this is just a manifestation of the evils of > proprietary softwares. > > In my opinion, this is necessary for the message of Free Softwares to > get across. Unless we have strict implementation of our existing laws > and unless multinational software companies exert their interests > among the users here, the message we are trying to spread just gets > lost. Proprietary softwares have to be as evil as we claim they really > are for a common-man to understand what he is missing. When he gets it > for no cost and when he sees no harm in using them, our messages sound > like pure propaganda to them. > > I see this as a welcome sign. > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Hempal Shrestha > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A very valid question though from the text:By Justin Montgomery > > > > "Another question that has been raised, is why is it going after > users of > > pirated versions of Windows XP when the software isn't even > available any > > more. Wouldn't they have to go with Vista now instead? It looks > to me like > > it's more of an initiative to get Vista in the hands of users than > anything > > else." > > > > > > Best Regards, > > HS > > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Hempal Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Dear FOSSians, > >> > >> Since last few days, I had been observing an message and some > taglines > >> that after Sept 23, 2008, Illegal copies of M$ Windows will be > identified > >> and shown a Black (instead of Blue) Screen of Death. This is a > clear > >> indication of monopolist Imperial IPR regimes spreading its claws > to these > >> poor people and poor economies, denying them thier right to > knowledge, > >> education and livelihood just for thier filthy profits. > >> > >> Have you observed such cases in your sorrouding? Starting this > morning, > >> some cases of Black Screen of Death has already been reported to > me. So the > >> message seems to be TRUE. The basic problem starts with blinking > of > >> computer monitor, It turns to Complete Black and they are not > allowed to > >> perform anything. They reported that, the computer worked when they > >> re-started it, but not sure what will happen next time OR till > when they > >> will be allowed to work on thier own computer. Not sure, when the > timebomb > >> goes on how their work will be hampered. > >> > >> Hence, we at FOSS Nepal Community should take note of these > barriers to > >> our right to knowledge and livelihood and act accordingly. The > motto is to > >> have a detailed knowledge about this and educate / motivate > people from > >> avoiding such senario. Best and ultimate, being to suggest / help > them to > >> migrate to FOSS. > >> > >> Here are some of the links, which talks about these development > in more > >> detail. > >> > >> http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/09/the-black-scree.html > >> > >> http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/f24b14b5-b13a-4724-bb4f-63a8adecfe13/ > >> > >> http://keznews.com/2385_Microsoft__The_Advantages_of_using_illegal_software > >> > >> http://askville.amazon.com/Microsoft-update-fix-Windows-XP-SP3-problems/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=11853992 > >> > >> http://vista.blorge.com/2008/08/26/black-screen-coming-for-pirated-windows-users-compliments-of-wga/ > >> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/2138201 > >> > >> > >> Hope and wish to FOSSify all, > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> > >> Hempal Shrestha > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Prabin Gautam "ओपन ठिटो" > Registered Linux User #443940 > letS makE ouR streeT FOSSible.......... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
