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Re: [News] Internet Explorer 8 to Render More Applications Broken

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
<spam@xxxxxxx>
 wrote
on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:24:26 +0000
<qtv4b5-vm8.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft becoming 'software police,' say users
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft Corp. last week slammed the door on a free utility out
>> | of Australia that outflanked one of the company's touted security
>> | features in Windows Vista, by having the program's digital
>> | certificate revoked....
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=windows&articleId=9029161
>
> Shouldn't it be up to the /users/ as to what software, if any, runs on
> /their/ computers.

That's just so 80's.

>
> Oh but I forgot ... when you run Windows, you're only a /tenant/ in your
> computer. You own nothing.

Does make one wonder.

I own the physical hardware.
I do not own rights to copy the BIOS.
I own the CD.
I do not own rights to copy the CD and give it away.
I do not own rights to rip the CD and give tracks away.
I own the actual file data for a video or music file
(since it's on my storage device).
I do not own rights to copy, modify, or analyze that data.

Hello?  Is this maze spinning or is that just my head? :-)

>
> It's a bit like WGA, where one is expected to "check in" every so often,
> like a prisoner on parole. Merely /paying/ for the software is not
> enough apparently, one has to continuously prove one's innocence in the
> face of being presumed guilty.
>
> Well that's just the Genuine Disadvantages® of Windows.
>

But look at the bright side of owning
Windows....um....wait, there isn't one.  :-P

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