"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "webster72n" <webster72n******.com> wrote in message
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>> "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>>> "The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'"
>>> <me211@privacy.net> wrote in message news:grm84p$tgk$1@aioe.org...
>>>> 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!
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>>>>> Alias
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>>>> Oh, that is priceless! Thanks for sharing. :)
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>>>> "Software is like sex, it's better when it's free."
>>>> - Linus Torvalds
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>>>> DRM and unintended consequences:
>>>> [url]http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=435&tag=nl.e101[/url]
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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.
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>>> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
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> We may never know that, but the assumption by most, right or wrong, will
> be that Microsoft knew what they were doing..[/color]

Exactly and that's also why I am quite disappointed. They are taking
advantage of their 'loyal' followers, which in my opinion is despicable.
<H>.
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> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
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