__/ [ ed ] on Friday 06 October 2006 20:10 \__
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:54:33 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We should have learned from previous attempts of WGA, as well as DRM
>> (Microsoft fastest patch and currently the fabricated allegations to
>> stop unlocking of files). Both were cracked very shortly after they
>> had been released. In the former case, it didn't even look like
>> Microsoft tried hard to prevent piracy (backing below), but rather to
>> scare people in order to squeeze out more money through licensing. At
>> the same time it can whine about being fooled, but it's merely a case
>> of crocodile's tears. They try to find sympathy, having screwed up the
>> computing industry with fraud, blackmail and extortion for at least a
>> couple of decades.
>
> A large corporation, with that much money, cannot get sympathy. They're
> not an underdog.
Maybe not sympathy, but they can recruit apologists to mitigate the mess.
Think H-P or AOL, to use recent examples...
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