On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:58:50AM +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Friday 19 May 2006 04:54, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
Another reason for XP to be very popular is because its FREE!! (Pirated version). The XP will vanish from 50% of desktop, if it has hardware security lock. And I am sure MSFT can lock their OS with hardware lock. They are not doing and allowing some piracy to popularise the their product. Just my 2 cent thought...
Well, all that might change. The latest windows updates are going to install a utility to check whether you have a genuine copy. If not, then theres gonna be nag screen making your life hell! :P
If M$ becomes too strict about genuine software, people will shift to OSS. And whatever M$ uses to secure its os gets reverse engineered and new 'free' versions hit the stands. Stopping piracy will help FOSS in a big way but the onus should be on the users not the vendors. Its the users who refuse to buy software.
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