> > C'mon, all you morally upright citizens! Let's see you defend this > actual theft of time. >
The problem as I see it is it is undefensible by the individual users in practical terms, wrong as it is for us to get hit like this. I wonder when the first class action lawsuit is going to come down on behalf of M$ users trapped in this WGA problem, with the damage & harm being based on lost productivity. Of course the settlement will cause M$ to kick out attorney fees for the plaintiffs, and for all WGA End Users (that can prove they were affected? <g>) there will be M$ discounts on future M$ software and products. Same old crap, where the only winners will be the attorneys who agree to such a sttlement. I wonder if they would be so agreeable if their fees were also paid in M$ discounts <g>... Yeah, better to vote with my wallet, and pull as much as I can away from the M$ arena. It is not punitive on my part, it just does not make sense for me to perpetuate their bad behavior when I am adversely impacted without reasonable cause. Suspecting I may be a thief, or identifying me incorrectly as a thief and punishing me by removing my ability to use my machinery by crippling of my properly licensed OS is flat wrong. Bad business model, bad ethically, and such bad behavior ought not be rewarded. If WGA worked properly, that would be a different story. I feel M$ ought to be able to take measures to help ensure they are getting their revenues due them. Just leave me out of the dog fight when I am an innocent traveler trying to get through my destination. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 9:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide > outage,problems galore > > > On Aug 27, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > > One Wednesday they detected that I had not run a critical update > > from Microsoft even though I had automatic updates turned on; not to > > run, but download and notify me that they need installing. So I > > went to > > manually install the updates and it turned out to be WGA. They marked > > the WGA check as a critical update! Guess what else? My MDSN copy of > > XP was identified as "Not Genuine". I ran WGA three times and on the > > third time it identified my copy as genuine. After over an hour of > > working on this update, I finally got in to resolve my customer's > > payroll issue. > > And what part of this don't you think is reasonable? > > How much did Microsoft pay you for your wasted time? Everyone here > who is defending WGA seems to be so morally outraged at the concept > of "stealing" a non-exhaustible resource, so I can only imagine their > outrage at Microsoft stealing your time, which is certainly not > unlimited. > > C'mon, all you morally upright citizens! Let's see you defend this > actual theft of time. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
