mbpark, i don't knwo about the US, but here officeXP is being advertiesed as a one year licence and that is the system microsoft is trying to roll out, paying for software like cable TV or a phone line. Product to service, its gonna be a royal pain in the ass for home users. Particualry with the anal retentive definition of computer which menas if i remember coreclty if you purchase a new system you need a new copy of winXP. (correct me if i'm wrong on that)
Yes piricy is ripping off legitimate companies right to income for the use of their product. At the same time i pirate nearly all the software i own including games.
BUT i buy copies of any good software i use regualry, including games. THe only exception to this is photoshop coz i just don't have the $.
Its the try before you buy system. Most of my freinds use the same system. Customers don't care how much it takes to make the software, or how long or how in debt you are, only how good it is, and they'll pay for that value, nothing else. Although i am less liekly to pirate software from smaller firms/artists.
The other issue with piracy si that software - for what it is is fucking expenisve. $100 for a game that lasts 2 weeks, no wonder you want to get a priate copy, its jsut not worth it.
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However, my nastiest experience with the spyware was with CA ArcServeIT 6.61. I had a server behind two firewalls, with a proxy server that was not specified in the Internet Explorer settings for that machine (which is where the proxy detection comes from). I was doing the upgrade from 6.5 to 6.61 and the installer did the following:
1. Found my proxy server (and this is without it being specified in Proxy Settings on a NATed LAN with the internal IP being a legit one so as to confuse other programs)
2. Sent registration info to CA.
3. Sent complete system information to CA.
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However, there's a difference between privacy for the sake of keeping Redmond out and keeping my business my business and no one else's, and privacy to thumb one's nose at lots of big nasty corporate entities who will do what it takes to make your life hard. It's the equivalent of hiding behind a mother's skirts and pissing off the other kids
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How can u say that then say that privicy isin't a good excuse against this. This is stripping away all privicy, how long till we see the msft *full harddrive access clause* for gods sake to make sure you don't have a serial list or somthing. THis is guilty till proven innocent implimented by a company that obviosuly considers itself up there with the govt.
This is like somthing out of brave new world - what would you ever want to do in private?
If you value your privicy how can you defend XP? I know your a pro developer and yes, piracy does suck but.......
Someone is bound to yurn around and very correctly say, if you don't liek it use somthing else. Slowly, slowly i am, but it takes time, linux ain't that ready for desktop yet.
Hopefuly XP will be such a shit for home users they'll mabye start looking at alternatives.
--another series of incoherent vaguely lined though compiled by jaguar