The Product Key used to install Windows is invalid ....

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You clearly believe passionately in what you are saying and it should now be
clear that you don't support software piracy. I must admit I agree with most
of what you have said. In a perfect world every crime would be treated as
important, irrespective of whether it involve $1 or $1000000, but its an
imperfect system we have and resources have to be prioritised. I somehow
doubt that even Bill Gates gets his vandalised car checked for fingerprints
though lol

Chelsea





Theodore Baldwin Boothe III said:
Don't you guys think this thread has run its course now? Stealing is bad
and
Bill and Melinda Gates are loaded. Is there much more to say?
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Perhaps? One more item: Theft is very wrong. Also, when a man making
$18K per year has his car stolen, little effort by the local PD is
given to find his car. I recall having an item stolen from my car
years back. I asked the cop if they could fingerprint the car and
perhaps look for a print of a person already in the system, so they
could catch the person. The cop said "we don't roll out those people
for crimes under $500....it just wouldn't make sense because we have
to focus on the big crimes where people get something very valuable
stolen.." I was like shaking my head and wondering why I was not
important enough? Wasn't my radar detector, something I paid good
money for, worth finding? I guess not. A guy making $18K per year who
get's things stolen from him is not worth the time or effort to find
the theif.

Now let's look at what IS considered worthy of finding. Microsoft is
likely the largest corporation in the world. It also holds perhaps
80-90% of the OS market in the world. It's founder and CEO is worth
just under $50 Billion and the company has more than $150 Billion in
cash on hand, and untold $billions in value based on it's stock price.
When someone steals something from them, all hell breaks lose and
nothing is spared to find this person. Understand, if they lose $1
Million in stolen software, it would be like you and I losing a dime!

So we have our priorities in order now
To sum up
If you're poor and have something stolen, good luck with that.
If you're worth billions then god himself will find the theif.

NO NO NO, I want to make it clear AGAIN:Stealing is wrong, very very
wrong. People should not steal because it is morally and legally wrong
to do.
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Chelsea said:
You clearly believe passionately in what you are saying and it should now be
clear that you don't support software piracy. I must admit I agree with most
of what you have said. In a perfect world every crime would be treated as
important, irrespective of whether it involve $1 or $1000000, but its an
imperfect system we have and resources have to be prioritised. I somehow
doubt that even Bill Gates gets his vandalised car checked for fingerprints
though lol

Chelsea





Don't you guys think this thread has run its course now? Stealing is bad
and
Bill and Melinda Gates are loaded. Is there much more to say?
Click to expand...

Perhaps? One more item: Theft is very wrong. Also, when a man making
$18K per year has his car stolen, little effort by the local PD is
given to find his car. I recall having an item stolen from my car
years back. I asked the cop if they could fingerprint the car and
perhaps look for a print of a person already in the system, so they
could catch the person. The cop said "we don't roll out those people
for crimes under $500....it just wouldn't make sense because we have
to focus on the big crimes where people get something very valuable
stolen.." I was like shaking my head and wondering why I was not
important enough? Wasn't my radar detector, something I paid good
money for, worth finding? I guess not. A guy making $18K per year who
get's things stolen from him is not worth the time or effort to find
the theif.

Now let's look at what IS considered worthy of finding. Microsoft is
likely the largest corporation in the world. It also holds perhaps
80-90% of the OS market in the world. It's founder and CEO is worth
just under $50 Billion and the company has more than $150 Billion in
cash on hand, and untold $billions in value based on it's stock price.
When someone steals something from them, all hell breaks lose and
nothing is spared to find this person. Understand, if they lose $1
Million in stolen software, it would be like you and I losing a dime!

So we have our priorities in order now
To sum up
If you're poor and have something stolen, good luck with that.
If you're worth billions then god himself will find the theif.

NO NO NO, I want to make it clear AGAIN:Stealing is wrong, very very
wrong. People should not steal because it is morally and legally wrong
to do.
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Is this really relevant to the interests of Mr G?
 
DrJoel said:
One thing that drives me crazy is the way Microsoft connects the Windows
OEM key to the BIOS of the Motherboard. Example when I bought my Dell it
came with XP home. I paid extra for XP Pro. Now if I buy a new
motherboard I have to buy a new version of XP. I paid the same price
anyone else pays for XP why should I have to pay twice? Or am I wrong
with my thought?
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Dell did this not MS. If you buy a generic OEM version of XP it's not bound to
any BIOS. Also, I don't think Dell binds it's distros to a specific BIOS.

I asked Dell to send me am installation CD for my son's Insperon 6000. (The
cardboard one they included with the laptop wouldn't load :-) Since I didn't
want to blow away my son's setup I tested it on an old Dell Latitude.
It loaded fine - it didn't even need to be activated. Now THAT I find weird.

/dan
 
wow...so many replies and all irrelevant. Anyone with a valid answer to the
original question?
 
chris said:
wow...so many replies and all irrelevant. Anyone with a valid answer
to the original question?
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Apparently, you do not understand how Usenet works, Chris. Are you
interested in learning or would you rather have a chip on your shoulder
and look like an idiot?
 
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