public outcry

Marcel Kunath kunathma@pilot.msu.edu
Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:55:15 -0400 (EDT)


> Article summary: Microsoft is now enforcing what has *always*
> been in its OEM license agreements, to wit, that OEM software is
> only for use on the computer that it came with.  Big fscking
> deal.
>
> Total effect: When people ask me to fix their Windows-based
> computer and don't have a corresponding Windows disk to go along
> with it, I'll be able to tell them I can't do anything.  That's a
> *good* thing.

I know and I really don't care that much about MSFT but doesn't that just make
you angry? And all these people go with the flow and take the hits one after
another. I just wonder when the majority is sick of this treatment.

mk