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

As many discussions, not to many mind you, this one is off topic to the
stated goal of the group.

But that does not mean it should be taken off line or somewhere else.
In my association with this group i find i have discovered many people with
carefully reasoned opinions and intelligent discernment.  All that and
politeness.  A rare bounty to be exploited.

That being so an off topic discussion here is probably more fun than finding
somewhere else to discuss a topic I am interested in but not dedicated to.

Since this medium makes the discussion cheap, and the heading fits the topic
for filtering out the results from the archive, I would advocate not
insisting on taking this type of discussion off line or elsewhere.

Perhaps a "do not archive" or a "off topic" in the heading would reduce the
noise and assist in accurate searching in the future.  Paul, do you have
some guidance on this?

About the lawsuit.
I suggest people contact the vendors and make a noise.  Pushing back on them
, to push back on Microsoft, it probably the highest leverage we have.
Or just go Linux.

 
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