Yes Kylde, I accept what you are saying!
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:15, Kylde inscribed thus:
> it's a logical progression, Gary V supplied a link once, each and
> every hardware change adds points to the validation tally, too many
> points and xp assumes you've installed xp on TWO different
> machines, (MS logic, must be 2 PC's, their hardware is radically
> different), so you have to re-validate, which will KILL the
> validation on PC 1 (which Jim doesnt care about), I hate
> validation, but it makes sense,
Only if you are trying to lock in your users and maintain market
dominance ! A market, in my opinion, which is slowly slipping out of
M$ grasp.
> Linux would do the same if you actually had to pay for it :)
At the end of the day someone is standing the cost. IBM, Intel,
Novell, AMD, Redhat, Canonical et al are pouring millions into
Linux ! Governments are moving into open source all over the world.
Some even have their own nationalised versions. That money has to
come from somewhere !
There are one or two Linux distributions that have or are trying to
make users register. Note how their popularity has fallen !!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > My point being, why the hell should you have to go through the
> > activation rigmarole just to replace the hard disk. And yes I
> > appreciate that there was already a copy of XP on the disk that
> > didn't belong to that machine!
It doesn't invalidate the points you raise, but there are two sides to
a coin! ;-)
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Best regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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