..3 thoughts to add: 1. ms eula is illegal (like most software vendors) because you can't sell a product "as it is" and adveritsing it's features but if it won't work as advertised the producer doesn't take any responsability for that. It's like you would go to a restaurant and if the food they serve it's poisoned they tell that they sell it "as it is" and it's not their problem if you got ill ! Wouldn't you shoot them ?! 2. win was created for entertainment and should be used only for that - it would be insane to use it as a server/development platform (sure that it depends on how you configure it,;) but if you don't have the source for proper "configuration" it would just take extra hours for a cracker to get it). More than that it's unethical from software producers to ask money for patches that are used to fix their own bugs ! 3. the only versions of windows i've paid for are win 3.11 for workgroups which was a good piece of software worthing the $ and win95 which was a piece of junk. since win95 - total waste of money - i'm not paying ms for any other trashOSes, i'm just installing/testing/ and dropping them to the sandbox.
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1. ms eula is illegal (like most software vendors) because you can't sell a product "as it is" and adveritsing it's features but if it won't work as advertised the producer doesn't take any responsability for that. It's like you would go to a restaurant and if the food they serve it's poisoned they tell that they sell it "as it is" and it's not their problem if you got ill ! Wouldn't you shoot them ?!
2. win was created for entertainment and should be used only for that - it would be insane to use it as a server/development platform (sure that it depends on how you configure it,
3. the only versions of windows i've paid for are win 3.11 for workgroups which was a good piece of software worthing the $ and win95 which was a piece of junk. since win95 - total waste of money - i'm not paying ms for any other trashOSes, i'm just installing/testing/ and dropping them to the sandbox.