----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Ruset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:39 AM Subject: Re: [H] Microsoft's "Genuine Advantage" Cracked Already
You can buy the OEM edition with parts that you buy from Newegg or anybody else. As was mentioned, you can buy a screw and get XP OEM...
I should take this into consideration when I make decisions as to the legality of what I do. Here is why I do not.
If I were to install XP OEM on an existing computer and get caught, I lose my membership with Microsoft. Newegg does not.
If I were to install XP Upgrade on a new build and get caught, I lost my membership with Microsoft. Newegg does not.
Any move that is considered off color by Microsoft takes me out of the Microsoft OEM System Builder Program. Why do I need to be in the program anyway? I can simply buy my Windows from Newegg and to hell with credentials. I already have thousands of extra screws. A few more will not hurt. I remain in the builder program for credibility. I would hope some people would prefer to do business with me rather than some jerk downtown who buys from Newegg.
Ain't working! Seems people do not care and I will go out of business. I will go out in a blaze of glory with a clear conscience knowing I did my best to honor the Microsoft BS rules etc.
Did you know Microsoft was a legislator of law? It seems so when certain rules of their you violate is considered a violation of the law. When I worked as a Correctional Officer for the Georgia Department of Corrections it was noted that their rules etc. were Georgia law. I thought legislators had to write all law. I did not know that people behind big mahogany desks in the Georgia Department of Corrections and at Microsoft were writing law as they wrote their rules.
Chuck
