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Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows
bobbocanfly writes "Another crack in the Windows Genuine Advantage wall. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. (Here is an OGG video of the process.) Along with the advancement of LiveCD technology, this could spell the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."
> Another crack in the Windows Genuine Advantage wall. A user at
:) Getting to download some shit is not importand. I've downloaded Defender from genuine (pffft) copy of Windows at work and placed it on my pendrive. Then I've ran that copy of installer on ungenuine (pffffft) copy of Windows and it didn't pass the _instalation_ genuineness (pfffft) check. An mind you that was my friend's computer - I don't pirate software - I use Linux - I don't have to since it is free. :)
> UbuntuForums.org managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as
> a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page
> of Windows Defender,
If he could actually install the software it would be news.
So anyway what is the point of downloading software that you can't install? Or maybe you can install Defender on unlicensed copy of Windows? Can you? And if you can - how is piracy good anyway?
> using IE4Linux and Wine. Along with the advancement of LiveCD technology,
You probably could use also the advancement of floppy technology. Get few floppies. Download Defender from using licensed copy of Windows. Put it on floppies (software to split stuff over few floppies would probably be useful - like RAR or smth. go google). Then put the floppies in another computer and transfer the file to it! Wow! This is cool!
> this could spell the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."
How about beating the living shit out of Red Hat. Fucking Red Hat does not give binary updates to people who do not pay for their service. I've always known that RH = MS.
Anyway. How this shit *even* got to frontpage of Slashdot?!
actually, if i left microsoft as my main os provider i'd sooner go with apple. at least i'm going to get apple's support instead of this goodwill oss crap. just hoping someone makes it work in the future without being forced to pay for a solution from "consultants"
I really don't get the FOSSie obsession with MS. Why does it burn their asses that people prefer Windows?
And... why do they go through so much trouble to aid in software theft?
It must go along with the same "reasoning" they use to justify why they want to help "homebrew" on consoles. We all know what homebrew is code speak for... software theft.
No wonder Microsoft and the rest of the software industry views FOSSies as nothing more than theives.
go slit your fucking wrists fucktard