From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:44a255e4$3{at}w3.nls.net...
>> It'll get funny before it blows up in their face. Think what some Big
>> Boss
>> of a Big Company will say when they find out they had to hire an extra
> 17000
>> people just to run around entering some activation codes, and yet another
>> 12000 people to argue on the phone with MS about which one of those codes
>> are pirated and which ones are not. I worked in a company where we had
> only
>> some 60 desktops, and even there it was not too rare to get the
>> occasional
>> wrong license code when someone had put their Office CD's in the wrong
>> place, or something like that. Hoo-wee!
>
> Oh no even better than that. The whole reason for this constant checking
> is
> to allow MS to deactivate or kill certain activation codes should they
> somehow find their way to the internet, and should the machines fail to
> connect for X days it auto deactivates. Imagine something going wrong,
> going
> wrong, going wrong, going wrong...
>
> heh, I can see the headlines now.. "Congress outlaws Windows use as
> National
> Security Threat"

Congress doesn't have to get involved, because no
business/organization/whatever can use software like that in any critical
system. I for sure wouldn't (and won't) run a company database server on a
system that has a disable-switch built in like that. Or a webserver.
Traffic control, bank systems, you name it - anything that has to simply
work, cannot accept any shit like that.


Antti Kurenniemi

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