On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
Christopher Fisk wrote:
Normally this wouldn't be an issue for the kid, he would just ride his
bicycle, except that all the kids friends ever wanted to do was play ball.
They were afraid of the bicycle.
You _have_ to be kidding me. WGA takes less than 10 seconds to do. After that,
you don't have to do anything or think about it.
Nobody except people who love to hate MS or wear tinfoil hats is "afraid of
the bicycle" as you put it.
The bicycle was the alternative to Windows, not WGA. WGA was the mother
coming out and putting her kid into timeout and docking his allowance for
not going in every 5 minutes and signing for the ball.
doesn't stop the pirates, but it does cause annoyance to the legitimate
users. It fails the sanity test.
People who are using pirated Windows are *not* legitimate users. Considering
that MS is offering a nice discount on a genuine XP licence for those who
willfully pirated XP, and a free licence for those users who were duped into
buying a hot copy of XP from a black market retailer, I'd day that it's a
pretty generous (and sane) deal.
You REALLY need to get better in your reading comprehension.
"This doesn't stop the pirates, but it does cause annoyance to the
legitimate users."
Where do you get that I'm saying pirates are legitimate users from that
statement? Really, please explain it to me as I really want to know what
kind of screwed up logic you interpret what you read with.
In all honesty, the WGA doesn't effect me. My work computer runs linux,
with a VMWare Virtual machine with an Action pack license for XP. My home
laptop runs Windows XP Pro, which came with the laptop. My WGA check has
been done. Then again, I don't make my money doing updates for computers,
so I've only seen WGA twice, and havn't been blocked from updates because
of it.
I still think it's a bad solution for the problem. Tighten up activation,
remove the no-activation needed aspect of Windows XP corporate (which is
the main reason I think WGA is required).
Christopher Fisk
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