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Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the piracy-is-eeeeeeeevilllll dept.

14ghz writes "Microsoft gave out copies of .NET Visual Studio Pro to attendees of the Microsoft .NET Student Tour. Despite the discs saying "UNLICENSED SOFTWARE -- Illegal without separate license from Microsoft", the freebie didn't contain any license document, and one guy decided to ask the MS conference rep about it. Read the in-progress story."

4 of 469 comments (clear)

  1. Watch Out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IT'S A TRAP.

  2. Re:frist psot? by Coke+in+a+Can · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to thank Mozilla 1.3.1, and Windows XP Home, and especially my overclocked P4 for helping me with this frist psot.

    Oooh, I got -1, Troll already!

  3. Re:frist psot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yay, I forgot to post anonymously again! Even though this time, the box is checked, so somehow, it's the default, even though it didn't just apply. Well I'll be damned.

    I hope I get Terrible karma for this. Those few days of Good were nice, but Terrible = real bragging rights!

  4. Re:frist psot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh man, time to take a jizz on my computer again
    ::takes pants off::
    thats the stuff!