webster72n wrote:[color=blue]
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> "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:udEgzLYuJHA.2376@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> "The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina
>> DiBoy'" <me211@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:grm84p$tgk$1@aioe.org...[color=darkred]
>>> Alias wrote:
>>>> [url]http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131339[/url]
>>>> Now ain't that nice, MS gets fined for stealing WPA. The irony! MS
>>>> gets conviction of stealing the program they use to make sure no one
>>>> steals from them!
>>>>
>>>> Alias
>>>
>>> Oh, that is priceless! Thanks for sharing. :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> "Software is like sex, it's better when it's free."
>>> - Linus Torvalds
>>>
>>> DRM and unintended consequences:
>>> [url]http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=435&tag=nl.e101[/url][/color]
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>> Its states an infringement of a patent, not theft directly. Either
>> way, it has cost MS dear..[/color]
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> Why in the world would MS do something like this?
> They must have thought it was worth the price.
> I took Bill Gates for smarter than that.[/color]


He is, he left soon after WGA was adopted, remember? This is another
Ballmer screw up I'm sure.