Sean Dennis wrote to Charles Scaglione

SD>As you and I both know, there's plenty of ways around it.  I'm not
SD>condoning  piracy here, but I've seen on many a website programs and 
SD>ways to circumvent it.  Personally, I've used XP and think 
SD>it's the worst piece of crap to come out of MS since its 
SD>inception.  I have W2K Professional here for my Windows 
SD>development.

I have both installed - XP Home and Win2000 Pro, dual boot.  I have to 
disagree with your description of XP (my opinion).  Most people dislike 
XP not because it's inferior but because of the activation scheme.  I 
don't like activation either...

SD> CS> Also - many OEMs (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, HP, etc.) pre-install
SD> CS> XP Home  and Pro and use a BIOS locking scheme.  With that
SD> CS> method no activation  is required, however, the OS can not be
SD> CS> moved to another type of  machine.

SD>Luckily, I got my HP before Microsoft became Big Brother...

SD>...but then again, that's why I use OS/2. ;)

I agree. I sure wish it was still being developed and applications 
written for it.  Not a good situation for users with MS owning the 
desktop.

Regards.

cscag{at}charter.net

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