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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:So the guy who goofed, is he BLACK? by Ant+P. · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Becauses it's hard to imagine anyone else posting that?

  2. Re:TFA by Machtyn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Okay, here's the thing I would like to know. Why is Microsoft banning the use of DR DOS? Does Microsoft own DR DOS or is this more of the anti-competitive, monopolistic practices that Microsoft employs to attempt to rid the world of things like Netscape Navigator?