On 3/28/2012 4:08 PM, Gerard Arthus wrote: > David, > > You are right about buying the computer with windows pre-installed, but > I have a separate license and only have windows 7 as a virtual machine > running on a Linux box. Actually the hacked version runs much better and > is more secure than the OEM version. Most of the malware comes in > through accessing certain registry key, turn of those keys and you can > virtually run Windows XP or 7 without malware protection. I have seen > many instances of windows ISO downloads that are corrupted from their > own site. I do not lose sleep over copyright issues where windows is > concerned since they are responsible for more wasted man-hours due to > their fixation on making a profit at any price. If you think you only > own the plastic, then join the sheeple and pay the corporate scumbags > all the money that you want. All of my intellectual work is in the > Public Domain and I do not force people to pay for it. You only think > that you own the plastic because that is what you are told, but as you > do have the right to lend that plastic out, you also should have the > right to lend out a digital copy.
Not in the United States or any other country that actually enforces the laws. > Cloud computing and virtual machines will eventually put an end to such > myopic visions of control, regardless of what our corporate master > believe or say. If the Windows 7 disk is the OEM disk that came with a computer 'from a store in a box setup to switch on' then yes you will have problems trying to use that in a VM. Really. Why? The disk, and the files on it, that you have was designed for just that computer. Model and hardware specific. The VBox VM is a truly separate computer. Installed in a VBox VM and running on that same computer it will act just like it was a completely different physical machine. Pablo has already hinted that this thread should stop. And this is his list. :-) Good luck and goodbye. -- David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
