Russell Kent wrote:

Paul Lamar wrote:

You mean after I paid for this product it is going to stop working
and self destruct?

That is like buying a car and not registering it in a month or two
it turn to dust. I don't think that is legal. Why are people so
stupid to put up with this?

If I plug a phone line into it in theory there is a back door that
nobody but Microsoft can access. That is a monstrous invasion of
privacy.

Are there any lawyers out there that want to get rich way beyond
their wildest imagination?

Paul,
If you're really bothered by this, then don't cooperate with

Microsoft.

See:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=windows%2DXP+activation+h

ack

BTW, suing Microsoft is a fool's errand.

Russell Kent

Thanks for the tip Russell.
Well perhaps not an individual law suite but a class action suite funded
by enough people to wear them down. Also writing your elected

representatives

would also work if enough people did it.

Paul Lamar

Cool, that activation problem has obviously been solved.  However, after
not activating, can you still get the two dozen or so security updates

that

I've downloaded since I "upgraded" to XP?  There are still a lot of holes
in the "latest and greatest" M$ OS.

Mike

Mike McGee, RV-4 N996RV, O320-E2G, Hillsboro, OR
13B in gestation mode, RD-1C, EC-2

No holes in Linux as far as I can tell. Never had a virus in six years.

Paul Lamar

Probably because no one is PO'd at the LINUX platform

Excel 97 had an imbedded game that ran when the proper information was
inserted into a cell that was way off to the right and towards the bottom of
the spreadsheet.  At this time I can't remember which cell, or what was
needed to start the file running.  The developers had you fly in the dark
towards a light on the horizon.  When you reached the light there was an
obelisk where the names of the developers were scrolling upwards on the face
like the credits of a movie.  So what is there to stop MS XP from having as
many back doors as there are programmers that worked on the project.

Bob Perkinson
RV9A

Speaking of that I don't think even Bill Gates knows all that is in there.

On the other hand a zillion people are reading the Linux source code.

Paul Lamar

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