From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Validated, I've seen them.

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Glenn M.
"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>
>> Worse, says Cherry, is that users will now be steered toward self-help
> tools
>> when piracy problems crop up. "I shouldn't have to be sent
off on a whole
>> day adventure to troubleshoot validation for Microsoft," he says.
>
> You shouldn't be sent off at all. If Microsoft sells to OEM's and OEM's
> sell
> to the public then the OEM's are Microsoft's agents and THEY are
> responsible
> for assuring that windows is valid before selling it to you. If an agent
> of
> MS sells you bogus windows you can sue MS and win. I know, I've done
> exactly
> that and not only did I get the software license, I got $5K back from the
> OEM to cover legal expenses. (it wasn't MS software).
>
> Ask Glenn, he saw copies of the framed checks on the wall in my office.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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