Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Friday 19 May 2006 04:54, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
Another reason for XP to be very popular is because its FREE!!
(Pirated version). The XP will vanish from 50% of desktop, if it has
hardware security lock. And I am sure MSFT can lock their OS with
hardware lock. They are not doing and allowing some piracy to
popularise the their product. Just my 2 cent thought...
As long as you have an if... then statement in your code that checks for
this Hardware lock, one can get it pattern matched and removed. So many
cracks, patches on the Internet work this way. The only thing that has a
good potential to put a stop to piracy is DRM.
Well, all that might change. The latest windows updates are going to
install a utility to check whether you have a genuine copy. If not,
then theres gonna be nag screen making your life hell! :P
Sure. I know people who conned this utility :). The truth is MS Windows
affords very little security... even when it comes to protecting its own
a$$. Their strategies of "planned obsolence" will never cut it in a long
run. With pop-ups and so called wizards abound, their software is past
user-friendly. It is now idiot-friendly.
Consider this analogy, most people who start using computers use Windows
XP users. It is like a child learning to walk. A child needs to be
handholded initially. But most importantly, a child needs to feel and be
secure... you certainly don't want him crossing a highway on his own.
Still, millions of people connect to the Internet using Windows XP and
wonder how their computers got infected and put the blame on crackers
(hackers in their lingo).
OK. Sell software as long as it is legal, but at least sell good
software? This article by John C Dvorak is a case in point:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1601482,00.asp
Warm regards,
ah
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