7 Oct
2019
7 Oct
'19
8:28 a.m.
Its been a while but same game and I'm not a player.
I just don't run windows. I jumped that ship back in 06 when
burned on NT. Since then its Linux. If you play in the swamp
of M$ then your run all the risks and costs. Its just not good
enough to be worth the pain. Any new machine I might buy must
be bare or come with Linux and in the past Asus did a few that
I still run. If not I default to ITX/miniITX boards/boxes as
they are easily gotten bare.
It also reminded me of Micro$soft Roads, a few of us likely
remember that one too.
Wait till M$ AI on your car decides some roads do not meet the
terms of service and refuses to go there.
Since schools and Uni's all seem to be M$ based maybe the terms
of service are in effect there.
And tubes... I'm like one of the few here that knows how to design
with them because I did.
Allison
On 10/7/19 10:54 AM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
downloaded for
free is meaningless to the actual case.? Not saying I
agree with the law they got him on as there should be some exceptions
but facts are the facts.? Btw. This was the first version of the story
I read that mentioned that Microsoft sold replacement restore disks to
computer refurbish shops themselves.
I thought Microsoft would refer you to Dell, and Dell would be the ones
to sell them.
Had the discs not looked like the original restore discs then he might
of gotten away with it? Trademark infringement and all. Fake Louie.
It's stupid. It really is a mess trying to restore the OS when the hard
drive dies on machines that ship with recovery partitions and no media.
I mean, the fact the restore media is on a CD/DVD just says that it's
for old crusty computers.
New machines have the license keys baked into the BIOS, the Windows tax
is built in.
But the Netflix Bill Gates docuemntary says he is cool so the young
people trust Microsoft. And of course the beautiful machines Apple was
making kind of went to hell as they focus on telephones, which are
declining.
Pretty much trapped.
??????????? - Ethan
Now if I made a copy of Raiders for someone else
or copied it off a
free TV transmission and sold DVDs of that, it would be a crime since
there still is a way to buy a replacement DVD or watch/DVR it on free
TV when it happens to be on.
But that is different as Windows is protected by a software key, so the
restore disc is useless without it.
Cheers,
Corey
corey cohen
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: Ethan O'Toole
On Oct 7, 2019, at 7:15 AM, John Foust via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
?At 05:51 AM 10/7/2019, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
Must be the USA PC World. In the UK they would
have tried to sell
you an extended warranty as well which is really just an insurance
policy....
.. but the question is why PC World. Don't US universities have
student discount stores?
University student discount stores?? You mean those state-sponsored
computer shops that put all the private computer shops out of business?
Only 1.2 :-), as for example in a nearby (10K student) university town,
there are no longer any private computer repair shops that a non-student
can go to as far as I can tell, so I'm actually picking up more business
because I'm one town away.
- John