Re: [OT] Win XP Activation ?
- Posted by jc at cowgar.com
Sep 14, 2003
> Try www.astalavista.com ...
> Peek up a search engine ...
> There is a "patch" somewere ...
>
> It is all I can tell you in the limits of the law.
> ( Microsoft law ? ... )
Fact of the matter is that when you buy software you do not own it. You
are licensed to use it. The person selling the software could place
restrictions into the license how ever they want. It would be perfectly
legal to say that you can only use the software, while your monitor is
turned off and mouse disconnected, and before use you must eat 5 eggs
with lettuce on top. However dumb that may sound, if that's the license,
and you agree to it by purchasing the software, if you use the software
with your monitor on, or your mouse connected, or if you did not eat 5
eggs with lettuce on top you are in violation of the software license
and the licensing party has the right to disable the software and if
they desire, remove it from your computer.
If you don't like the license, then you have a choice not to buy it.
My XP license had to be activated, it did invalidate on my once when I
got tired of "Serious Security Hole found" news releases and decided to
split my 40g drive into two 20g, 1 for XP and the other for Linux. I had
to call MS and tell them what I had did, and they then gave me a number
to re-activate my XP. I also snuck in a, this Linux is pretty cool, I
find myself using it more than XP, line 
Jeremy
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