Nuke Redmond!

[allison]

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
>> 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
>>>
>>
> 
> -- 
> : Ethan O'Toole
>