Re: Win ME Disks
"secret00agent00man" <secret00agent00man@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> no im not saying its necesarily ok, but could microsoft think about it, or
> at
> least make the punishments less harsh to the unactive products in the
> support
> line
Windows 'piracy' is meaningless pre-WPA. The only people who are concerned
about it are those who have been hypnotised by the industry into echoing
it's mantra, and those who always were unable to seperate reality from
reactionary fantasy. When you make a product absurdly simple to copy and
then insist people read some mind-numbing legal diatribe in which, if they
are that sad, they will see an appeal to give their word not to copy it, and
the product is copied willy-nilly as per universal human nature, in the hard
world of business (in which you firmly stake your patch by using the mind
numbing legal diatribe) it is your fault for being incredibly naive or
optimistic or maybe just plain lazy.
What actually matters is that, as you say, the OS is full of security holes.
It is also severely limited stability-wise (compared with XP and later).
Microsoft are not suffering by people using copied Win ME discs - because
they no longer sell it; nor are they losing out on sales of Vista because 9x
is readily available gratis, because no-one who would buy Vista would use 9x
instead 'because it is free', and no-one who would use 9x because they
prefer it has any interest in using Vista.
There are two types of 9x users. Those who can't afford any operating
system - so it's 9x or nothing (or Linux, which they probably won't
understand), and those who are interested in old, historic, versions of
operating systems. Both arguments against allowing these are - apart from
the one about making the entire internet a more insecure place for the rest
of us; but it is a fairly contrived one these days - based on greed, and
supported by a mean, rigid, bigoted, authoritarian mindset that believes in
upholding the decrees of the rich and powerful absolutely regardless of
merit (on either side).
Arturo