From: "Geo" 

I remember something about that too, it may be the company that was being
promoted as moving to linux because MS shut them off, don't remember
anymore, there was so much propoganda and bs out there it's hard to tell
how much was real.

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Didn't they do that with one of the early corporate keys that was leaked?
> In the first SP, or patch, if that key had been used, the patch wouldn't
> install???  The memory is hazy, but I remember something about that.
Maybe
> someone else remember something along those lines.
>
> --
> Glenn M.
>
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> > If they did then microsoft would simply stick a
"deactivation" command
in
> > some patch or service pack to shut down that license.
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "Mike N."  wrote in message
> > news:dqasv0h4herqkbbpkkgu56agkvklb9h7in{at}4ax.com...
> > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:56:10 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"
> > 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >Corporate non-activation versions?
> > >
> > >   I would have thought the corp versions would have embedded serial
> > > signature that would trace the leak back to the source.   Of course,
it
> > > would still pay crooks  to set up a fake corp, license 1,000 copies,
> then
> > > just quietly disappear with the non-activated version.  And as a corp,
> if
> > > your IT staff has to handle the CDs, it only takes one disgruntled
> > employee
> > > to leak the software and there's not much you can do.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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