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Forum: The Classroom Topic: wankmeister billes masta-gates started by: Dark Knight Bob Posted by CatKnight on Jan. 21 2001,18:11
heh they probably figure that someone had to pay for it at one point, so it doesn't matter anyway.
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Jan. 21 2001,22:14
no, they don't give a damn. I called them once to ask about educational licensing - basically it was this :ME: "um, I have an order for twenty machines, and they're supposed to have NT workstation, but the buyer is a school and qualifies for educational licensing. We don't sell educational licenses, so the school is going to buy them somewhere else. But it will take four weeks for them to get them, and they need the machines now... is it cool if we put NT on the machines for them, and let them handle the licensing later?" MS : "Sure, we don't care as long as you're not charging them for the OS and not giving them the license." ME : "Nope, I'm just doing them a favor." MS : "No problem." Posted by DuSTman on Jan. 22 2001,00:13
My mum got me a copy of visual studio as part of the university staff licensing deal ( my computer is *cough* her home machine *cough*So,, i go and register this on the website, and they invited me to the launch of windows 2000, presumably because i was on their database of "developers". So, i went to that. Pretty damn boring show actually. Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Jan. 22 2001,05:30
i know EVERYONE has illegal rip off of microsoft merchandise but does anyone know of cases where microsoft has actually charged people with owning the illegal copies (i'm not talking about big companies cos thats obvious i'm talking about the regular joe although i'm not suggesting that joe does have hacks of win 98). my freind knows someone who works in the microsoft legal dept. and when she stayed round their house once she quite happily overlooked the rack of cd-writables with offics and shit marked on it. do they really give a fuck about it??------------------ Posted by diusFrenzy on Jan. 23 2001,01:57
Why in god's name would they object to piracy? Pirating of microsoft products is one of the major reasons they're as big as they are now (yes yes, the main reason is b/c of IBM's marketing decision with regards to DOS...) is because of the level of proliferation of their software.Simply put, the more people who HAVE office, the better, because it becomes an industry standard and then everyone (in business) is realistically required to buy office (same philosophy works for the OS and most of their office-related software). The bottom line is it's better for them to have a small \% of the whole damn marketplace rather than a large \% of a small segment (which is of course the point of illegally "dumping" your product). ------------------ Posted by solid on Jan. 23 2001,03:53
i think whoever implemented that mice be originally used with your right hand masturbated left handed (man or woman)see, it goes something like- (yes, i did make it sound neanderthal for humor) Posted by Sithiee on Jan. 23 2001,08:30
the only stolen software i have from MS is office 2k, and i needed it for schoolwork, i plan to eventually buy a copy of it...i would have bought in the first place, but at the time i didnt have 400 dollars, and i also dont think its worth 400....
Posted by mqa on Jan. 24 2001,00:27
i dont have any piated ms shit on my comp. i also know a guy who gut busted for running a warez server w/ win2k on it before it was released. they were going to fine him some huge amount, but he was under 18 at the time so they couldnt do much legally.
Posted by solid on Jan. 24 2001,00:47
Who buys the winME upgrade from 95-98 anyways? I heard somewhere- it said "199$ isnt THAT much for a patch" and ME is pretty much a big patch.
Posted by Sithiee on Jan. 24 2001,01:51
dude, it was 50 dollars, and its far more stable than 98 was...
Posted by aventari on Jan. 24 2001,02:42
and that's okay?? Selling a โ patch for software that was supposed to work when it came out! A big reason MS doesn't bust pirates is PR. same reason Napster users aren't busted by the thousands. The PR damage done by going after small time petty crime is enormous compared to the relatively small gains. Plus, can you imagine the logistics of busting everyone who pirates shit? You can't really stop something 90\% of people do. After reading 'Hackers' by Steven Levy, i really look up to the open-source model for intelletual property. ------------------ Posted by Sithiee on Jan. 24 2001,08:31
no one said you had to buy it in the first place. i never owned a copy of win98, i bought a full WinME, but i was just saying that it wasnt 200 dollars, and it does run much better. its really stable, and pretty fast. and i have an "older machine" so thats good for me...
Posted by cr0bar on Jan. 24 2001,13:41
Here is something everyone can understand:WinME != Stable Posted by solid on Jan. 25 2001,05:59
50 bucks?!... radioshack. i knew it. those bastards. anyhow the highest i saw was that, thats 3 times more. holy shit. of course that is canadian dollars, but the lowest in ca bucks i saw was 120, aside from that, it IS imported right? |