Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 06 October 2006 00:00 \__
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Handover Phist
>> <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:36:38 GMT
>> <slrneiaulm.5bs.jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> hym3n_h0l0c4$t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :
>>>> Just saw a newsbite on the elevator telly claiming that Vista will be
>>>> doing permanent damage to non-licensed computers.
>>>>
>>>> If even possible, I can't help but think this is a bad idea: What
>>>> happens
>>>> for inadvertant copyright violators? What about "false positives"?
>>>>
>>>> I'm dying to see how this one pans out.
>>>
>>> That cant be right. Even MS knows they dont have rights to the hardware,
>>> just the software.
>>
>> Why would they want such? :-) Hardware is a lower-margin business.
>
> ...Wasn't there some issue with IBM over a decade ago? Rex happened to have
> mentioned damage at hardware-level, which by the way is
> possible. Whether
Yes Roy. We know. Jesus.
> it's a possibility /here/ I very much doubt it. The compensation/lawsuits
> over other hardware, e.g. XBox 360, were suffieciently damaging. They even
> encourages Microsoft to *gasp* merge a few divisions for financial purposes
> (reports), as means of hiding/mitigating the scale of failure and keep up
> appearances for that next press/investor's conference.
When accessing HW directly its always possible to damage it : whether by
bus contentions or overclocking.
Nothing rocket science about it.
MS will not be damaging peoples HW on purpose if they have no
license. Is this thread for real?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
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"All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory..."
(By Larry Wall)
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