Unless you build your own system, most computers come with some version of
Windows included in the cost. So most users, even those who are running
"pirated" or "illegal" copies of Windows, originally paid for the Operating
System in some way. Almost all those "pirates" are running "corporate" or
"cracked" versions just to get around the stupid and annoying Activation and
WGA crap. You would think that MS would understand this. I've owned about a
half dozen computers, and they all came with a legal OS installed.


"Stan" <spamblock@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:43:59 -0700, GHalleck
> <ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote:
>
>>And, BTW, there are many non-pirates who have the brains and knowledge
>>to run rings around WGA and escape from its clutches.
>
> I'm a non-pirate that got the tools to get around the infamous malware
> WGA. Both of my copies of XP are legal paid for copies but I took
> issue with having to keep proving my honesty over and over and over
> and over. Then when M$ got caught with their panties down around
> their ankles when they got caught trying to slip a call home piece of
> malware by as a critical update and lied about it until they were
> forced by overwhelming evidence to the contrary to come clean, I took
> all instances of the malware off my computer and got the tools used by
> the pirates to get my updates. I haven't had their malware or its
> updates on my two systems since they got caught in their lies 2 WGA
> updates back but I have all of the critical updates I choose thanks to
> the tools available to do so.
>
> Ain't it a shame that we have to guard ourselves against the makers of
> the OS we use like we do against all the other purveyors of Viruses,
> Trojans, key loggers, dialers and other assorted pieces of malware out
> there. Or, in other words, ain't it a shame that the makers of the OS
> we use has no more moral integrity than the purveyors of Viruses,
> Trojans, key loggers, dialers and other assorted pieces of malware out
> there.