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Linguist Tweaks MS For Redefining "Genuine"
crazybilly writes, "The Language Log, home blog for several professional linguists, posted a story a few days ago about how Microsoft is redefining the word 'genuine' (as in the 'Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative') in an attempt to increase public sympathy for their anti-piracy efforts. From the article: 'An unlicensed copy of Microsoft Windows is perfectly genuine. It has exactly the same functionality as a licensed copy and was made by the same company... I suspect that Microsoft is attempting to redefine "genuine" because it has had a hard time getting sympathy for its actual complaint, namely unlicensed distribution.'"
> A counterfeit Picasso is different, content-wise, from a real one
While it's an interesting philosophical question to consider the idea of whether a perfect duplicate of a Picasso is in fact a Picasso, it does remain that Picasso still didn't paint it.
You might consider that a linguist might still be a dipshit, but just better at twisting words.
Sincerely,
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.
That's known as being a grammar nazi. You have nothing constructive to contribute, all you're there for is to correct somebody else for something that's ultimately worthless.