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One In Five Windows Installs Is Non-Genuine
snib writes "Microsoft disclosed Monday that, according to reports collected by the notorious Windows Genuine Advantage tool on millions of users' PCs, 22% of all Windows installs do not pass its validation tests and have therefore been deemed non-genuine. Quoting: 'Since WGA launched in July 2005, over 512 million users have attempted to validate their copy of Windows, Microsoft said. Of those, the non-genuine rate was 22.3 percent... [T]he Business Software Alliance... reports that 35 percent of the world's software is pirated (22 percent in North America)...'"
from SCO.
There's no way it's that low
Oh, I think that's a little excessive. Confiscation of your computer and a public whipping would satisfy me.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I kid. Really, I kid.
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
But virus-infected software is not. Maybe that's what this number is referring to.
http://outcampaign.org/
Wait, who are we whipping?
That's a lot...
Looks like SCO have managed to wangle some mod points on slashdot... anyone with a sense of humour and mod points like to mod that the way it should be?
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Now that's persistence! If at first you can't make it stable, try, try again.
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
don't worry, slashdot keeps your IP address. we'll find you.
love,
bill g.
Yes he does! Linux itself is a computer game. A very long text adventure game full of twisty passages, all alike. Want to know your score? >uptime
"Piter, too, is dead."
Read it again...Genuine is an adjective modifying Advantage not Windows. Windows is Genuine in all cases but Microsoft's Advantage (presumably over you) is only Genuine if they've extorted money out of you and forced click "I agree" to their EULA (which gives them every right up to and including your first-born).
The presumably their Marketing department would say that this check provides legitimate customers with a Genuine Advantage over using a pirated copy...the piece of mind of knowing that your copy is legitimate and unaltered by the possibly-nefarious who gave or sold you your copy.
Fortunately for us, now we have Linux Genuine Advantage to validate Linux installations. I wonder how many of them are non-genuine...
"All you had to do was call Microsoft and they would have validated you over the phone"
That's such a creepy statement. You are not valid without microsoft's consent... fortunately, for your convenience, you may be validated by telephone.
For an additional $199, Bill Gates will baptize you over the phone.
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Or something like that...
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"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
me too!
Oh you've got to be kidding. This is the hight of Slashdot delusional thinking. You know as well as I do that the primary source of cracked XP is geeks. Same with cracked Photoshop and all the rest. Next thing, you'll be telling me that no one here has any pirated music.
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