From: "John Beamish" 

Agreement abounds.  But it's this type of casual piracy that MS's WGA is
stopping, not the serious stuff.

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:25:57 -0500, Geo  wrote:

> "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.
>
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5