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|    Björn Felten to Kurt Weiske    |
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|    24 Aug 12 22:27:07    |
       KW> I miss the old BBSLAW echo, was full of useful information back in the       day.               Ah yes, I loved that echo too. Unfortunately no local BBS had it here in       Sweden, so I had to pay long distance call to read it.               KW> If you're talking about fair use for using a downloaded/installed OS        KW> when you        KW> have shown good-faith efforts in owning a license, Microsoft has been        KW> tough on that.               Well, that's very true, Kurt. But only "officially". Unofficially MS       realised that it was thanks to so many unauthorized copies of their OS (from       MS-DOS and up) that made it the global success.               Kids got hold of the only copies they could afford (freebies) and installed       it, learned how to use it, and when they started work they were the experts       that convinced their employers to go for MS rather that any other OS.               KW> I work in an environment where we used an imaging system to provide a        KW> common image on multiple systems, and had OEM licenses purchased with each        KW> system (the "Microsoft" tax); MS still complained even though we had a 1:1        KW> ratio of licenses to systems.               I know. Been there, done that -- never got the t-shirt though. 8-)              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125        * Origin: news://felten.yi.org (2:203/2)    |
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