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How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks

Posted by timothy on from the nice-thing-about-free-software-is-no-cracks dept.

Anthony_Cargile writes "We all now know about Asus shipping illegal software cracks and confidential documents/source code on their recovery DVD (and in the system root), but this article tells exactly how it happened. It's even more careless than you think, and most likely an accident."

2 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Crack vs. Foss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If it amazes you, you're more naive than Paris Hilton.

    Normal human beings tend to use commercial software because the quality of FOSS user interfaces is total shit.

    Grow up and realize that the world isn't some FOSS wonderland, people use software that works, and FOSS doesn't.

  2. Re:This doesn't explain everything by Toll_Free · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As an image verifier for both Win2k and Win98 at Compaq (Houston), I can tell you, WE DID.

    So, dipshit, care to actually talk about something you know about?

    Go back to your mothers basement and install BEOS on a flashdrive again. It suites you well.

    --Toll_Free