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Subject: Re: Windows XP - a privacy issue?

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 14:59:52 10/27/01

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On October 27, 2001 at 16:47:25, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>Apparently you missed the part of my post where I said that site license copies
>are activated on a per-site basis. One 1-800 call, not 4000.

This whole idea is incredibly annoying. Can anybody imaging if everytime we
buy a product (CD, book etc.) we have to call and activate it?
A royal pain in the private parts (here it comes the privacy issue :-)
Can you imagine if every piece of software from different companies that we
install in our computer or come pre installed have to be activated with
a 1-800 number? How much time would be wasted?

Of course, only MS does it and only MS can get away with this because is a
monopoly, otherwise, the market would turn to the competition.

Regards,
Miguel

>
>-Tom



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