>> C'mon, all you morally upright citizens! Let's see you defend this >> actual theft of time.<<
Nice shot Ed. Nice. And you are the one telling me I have made it impossible for people to respond with their opinions. You see, I have stated several times that I do not agree that the implementation of WGA is perfected yet. And you say I am not reading the thread. Sheeeesh. All I have said is that digital product producing companies have the right to protect their IP any way they see fit. We as consumers have the right to buy or not. Why is this such an issue for you? If you don't like it, don't buy it. No one is forcing you to even install WGA. You can stay on Win2000 without future updates, or run XP without future updates by not installing WGA. Period. Sure it sucks, but until the consumer base can force Microsoft to change their ways they are unlikely to do so. I too have had my time stolen from stoooooiped stuff like this. I despise this fact as much as anyone. Haven't you read any of my blog posts on how much I hate hardware? Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 09:52 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.
