Microsoft should spank em'

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

But as it is they have no choice...and we'll see how happy they are about that state of affairs when we get to that MSFT nirvana where you get a software bill every month that left unpaid will cause your machine to stop working. Don't kid yourself: the phone-home-or-die infrastructure for that is being (quite visibly) laid as we speak.

I don't see MSFT as a problem unless you're using stolen software, which I'm not.

In any event...the state you see today is not some magical thing billg did out of kindness for us all to make computing easy, something that no one else could have concieved of or done. That's MSFT spin, PR and propiganda, concieved after the fact.

But "they" didn't, Gates did, and for that I'm grateful.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I don't see MSFT as a problem unless you're using stolen software, which I'm not.

Or unless you don't want to rent it when MSFT decides that's the only way they're going to offer it. Or happen to make enough changes to your machine that the phone-home system decides you have a new computer and must buy all your software over again.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

But "they" didn't, Gates did, and for that I'm grateful.

No, he didn't.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I don't see MSFT as a problem unless you're using stolen software, which I'm not.

Neither is famous Windows fanboy Paul Thullott...and yet he got burned anyway

[xoxoxoBruce]

Hyperbole. He didn't get burned.

No, he didn't.

Hold your breath until you turn blue, but he still did it. :p

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Hyperbole. He didn't get burned.

The pirate detection circuit fingered him, and he was innocent. And even though he's one of the annointed elite (the one you're so starry-eyed that Sir BillG delivered you from) he doen't know how it happened.

He won't be the last.