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Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year
An anonymous reader gave us a heads up on this article for people who like putting things off. It begins: "Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end-run around one of Microsoft's key anti-piracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today. Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secrets newsletter, said that a single change to Vista's registry lets users put off the operating system's product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely."
More evidence that DRM and similar systems are totally ineffective against attempts to circumvent them. The only people they affect are "innocent bystanders" who don't know how to get round the problems caused by, for example, "false negatives" in validation/activation.
As soon as Urbunghole starts losing that "new distro smell", it will simply go the way of Red Hat. and Slackware. and Linshitz or Lundows or whatever the hell they are calling themselves this week.
Urbunghole and other Lunix distros are free: if anyone actually wanted it, they would be using it already.
Get over the OS Wars, it's as borning as the Browser Wars. Linux is a never-coulda who never did. Just move on.