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to: John Beamish
from: Geo
date: 2006-11-21 22:25:56
subject: Re: Vista cracked & ont`net before release...

From: "Geo" 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.tjd42rxnm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Prolly (or gets used as a linux box by his techie-kiddie).
>
> The point was, though, that this kind of use is casual piracy which is
> what you were asking for an example of.

It's easily balanced out by those who buy a machine that comes with windows
and then wipe it and install linux.

There is no money to be made by fighting this sort of piracy, it's a joke.
Make it impossible and you just promote the competition, nobody is going to
spend $250 for an OS to make $100 worth of old hardware run even slower
than before.

Geo.

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