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[patrick]

Damien McKenna wrote:
> patrick wrote:
>   
>> installed product on a system.  Drive crapped out, and so did a CPU
>> and so, it does not equal the same system that was originally  registered.
>>     
>
> You can trigger that just by installing the software for a PocketPC
> device, like the one I sold you last year.  Freaky.
>
>   
>> That can happen when two or more major devices are replaced.  It
>> requires some communications with a dweeb at M$, to explain and beg to
>> be re-registered!
>>     
>
> I had to do that, it didn't take any begging, just answering "this is
> only running on one computer" a few times.
>
>   
I don't have the time to do it even once.  There are certain freedoms 
that are  natural, and one is that of my time  disposition.   I prefer 
to not have a liege lord, when I purchase a product. 

Now, I have been educated to understand that it is not a purchase of any 
products belonging to the Business Software Alliance.    It is a 
"lease", subject to strong conditions concerning it's use, that binds 
the user to disclose extensive personal information, on a continuing 
basis. 

Some of the data is collected manually, some is collected 
automatically.  The time and effort to both manage all that, and 
constantly patch, and protect against an onslaught of hundreds of 
thousands of invaders known as the "Microsoft Virus Definitions" linked 
together with the huge amount of problems inherent in the bloat ware, 
and the sudden losses of data in many of their applications, forbids my 
heavy investment of resources.  

So, I can't see that I have ever been served, but, that I am the 
servant, and am subject to extreme punishment, cruel and unusual, in the 
use of the faulty products of Microsoft Corporation.

In fact, any trade with Microsoft and members of the BSA,  immediately 
feeds a machine that is totalitarian and monopolistic. 

 I don't trade with convicted felons.  BTW, Microsoft's probation was 
recently revoked, and extended for three more years, for grievous 
violations.