Nuke Redmond!

[Ethan O'Toole]

> 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
> uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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
>>
>

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: Ethan O'Toole