This is nice, but why not just ship it with Linux? Any flavor would do. Or would that be a violation of the distribution agreement that they made with Microsoft?
And who uses DOS of any kind these days anyway? Why not just ship it with no OS at all? If you know enough about computers to use DOS, you probably know enough to install an OS just as easily.
I know of many companies that offer signed SSL certs for much, much cheaper than VeriSign. In my mind, VeriSign isn't any more "trusted" than anyone else. This is similar to how before 1999, you had no choice but to get your domain registrations at Network Solutions (a VeriSign company, I think). But yet, people still pay 35 bucks a year for them for no good reason. Same with SSL certs. I think I found a signed cert for $25 a year at one time.
(I hate VeriSign)
This might stop the everyday person that wants to mess around with counterfeiting a $20 in Photoshop, but the real threat is in the mass counterfeiters with huge printing presses in countries such as Colombia, where counterfeiting is rampant. Plus, there's a million other image editing programs that one could use, so I really don't see the point.
Interesting, but I wonder who it was that leaked the info? I'd sure hate to be that person:)
Anyway, I'm glad that Linux is actually being recognized by large companies such as IBM as an option for this.
I still have an old computer running a PII 233MhZ, 4GB hard drive dual-booting on Mandrake Linux and Windows 98. What OS do you think I'll be more inclined to use when M$ drops support on W98?
I bought the Mandrake 7.0 distro at Best Buy for twenty bucks, so it included support and I STILL GET support. (I bought it a few years ago when I had dialup and it made no sense to download it). When Windows 98 would have come at the hefty price of $100, and they drop support now? Maybe not all of us want to upgrade to XP, or can't because we have old PCs lying around that need updates.
Microsoft isn't REQUIRING the upgrades, but they're doing a damned nice job of forcing them on us.
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I'm sure people will do it, just as people sell gift certificates on eBay or anything else for that matter.
There is nothing patriotic about the Patriot Act. Absolutely nothing. I'm glad something is finally being done about it, if only in an indirect way.
This is nice, but why not just ship it with Linux? Any flavor would do. Or would that be a violation of the distribution agreement that they made with Microsoft? And who uses DOS of any kind these days anyway? Why not just ship it with no OS at all? If you know enough about computers to use DOS, you probably know enough to install an OS just as easily.
I know of many companies that offer signed SSL certs for much, much cheaper than VeriSign. In my mind, VeriSign isn't any more "trusted" than anyone else. This is similar to how before 1999, you had no choice but to get your domain registrations at Network Solutions (a VeriSign company, I think). But yet, people still pay 35 bucks a year for them for no good reason. Same with SSL certs. I think I found a signed cert for $25 a year at one time. (I hate VeriSign)
This might stop the everyday person that wants to mess around with counterfeiting a $20 in Photoshop, but the real threat is in the mass counterfeiters with huge printing presses in countries such as Colombia, where counterfeiting is rampant. Plus, there's a million other image editing programs that one could use, so I really don't see the point.
Interesting, but I wonder who it was that leaked the info? I'd sure hate to be that person :)
Anyway, I'm glad that Linux is actually being recognized by large companies such as IBM as an option for this.
I still have an old computer running a PII 233MhZ, 4GB hard drive dual-booting on Mandrake Linux and Windows 98. What OS do you think I'll be more inclined to use when M$ drops support on W98? I bought the Mandrake 7.0 distro at Best Buy for twenty bucks, so it included support and I STILL GET support. (I bought it a few years ago when I had dialup and it made no sense to download it). When Windows 98 would have come at the hefty price of $100, and they drop support now? Maybe not all of us want to upgrade to XP, or can't because we have old PCs lying around that need updates. Microsoft isn't REQUIRING the upgrades, but they're doing a damned nice job of forcing them on us.