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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:02:55 +0000 (GMT) Gordon Henderson wrote:On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Max Siegieda wrote:On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/windows_7_genuine_patch/ It seems a new patch for windows 7 will scan for things such as activation work arounds etc, even better reason for us as a lug to stop stalling and step up our efforts further and push the free software advantage,You make that sound scary, all it's doing is adding a slightly more up to date version of <car-salesman-voice> genuine windows advantage </car-salesman-voice> that we can even opt out of, and that's been in use for years. This news = meh.Until the license-key that you're using is abused by a hacker and MS then thinks that your box is pirated and shuts it down. And if your box is a server in a data centre, far far away and it's hosting some really important websites ... Good luck there, then ..."A Windows server box", "in a data centre", "hosting really important websites"? You're seriously putting those phrases together and expecting us not to laugh? :D
Well, indeed, yes. I realise that only a fool would do this, but there's that old saying: A fool and his money are soon parted...
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