From: Ad 

Gary Britt wrote:
> NHS, *IS* the government.
>
> Gary
>
> Adam > wrote:
>>> Hopefully the Vista/Office 2007  kill switch will kill a nice chunk
>>> of Microsoft's revenue.
>>>
>>> Vista - the infinite validation machine?
>>>
>>
>> I had a chat wrt this & the NHS t'other day. The initial feeling is
>> "cold day in hell" wrt (possibly accidental)
"deactivation" & a computer
>> used in healthcare.
>>
>>
>> So it ain't just governments.
>>
>> Adam

Nah. Not just. We have lots of private comps with which we interact/send patients to.

Were one to use an OS which one knew could be remotely deactivated
(possibly accidentally) in a healthcare application upon which
"patient care" depended & were the worst to happen & a
deactivation to cause damage/death of a patient then one could be looking
at a stretch in prison on manslaughter charges.


Not many are willing to risk their liberty on someone else's product.

MS have apparantly been promising a "dependable" Vista w/o wga
etc.etc. for use in such situations but then....you've got a non-std OS
with all the fun wot comes with that.

Adam

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