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+hack

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

The basic problem here is that Microsoft considers all users to be
pirates.  You are presumed guilty, and must suffer the consequences of
of intrusive anti-copy measures.

For those that are wondering, XP-SP1 closed the upgrade door on the
top-2 most used pirate activation codes.  SP2 is planned to similarly
close the upgrade path on another 20.  Microsoft's basic problem here is
that the leaked codes are by & large the site codes given to very large
corporate customers.  So it is difficult for them to disable a code used
by a large (paying) installed based.

Now ... if we REALLY want to get Paul all spun up, we should tell him
about the new hard disk rights-management zone which will be forced upon
XP users with the SP2 drop.  How does that sound, Paul -- the next rev
will be taking away your access to your hardware in order to provide a
rights-managed area for software vendors to solely control...

Mark

If it gets to be a pain I'll start to use a Linux based 3D drawing program. It is getting
better and better every revision. Here it is. Called Varicad. If necessary I'll 
learn that if Microshit gets more obnoxious than they already are.

 http://www.varicad.com/. 

In that case I won't need dual boot on my note book computer.
Heck if I had known about this XP activation problem in the first place
I never would have ordered my notebook dual boot. I would have gone
with Varicad and forgot Rhino.

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue54/frost.html
http://www.cocreate.com/english/products/2d/index.htm.
http://www.bentley.com/academic/products/linux2.htm. 
 http://www.vx.com/
http://opencascade.org/. 

Paul Lamar


 
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