Its been a while but same game and I'm not a player. I just don't run windows. I jumped that ship back in 06 when burned on NT. Since then its Linux. If you play in the swamp of M$ then your run all the risks and costs. Its just not good enough to be worth the pain. Any new machine I might buy must be bare or come with Linux and in the past Asus did a few that I still run. If not I default to ITX/miniITX boards/boxes as they are easily gotten bare.
It also reminded me of Micro$soft Roads, a few of us likely remember that one too. Wait till M$ AI on your car decides some roads do not meet the terms of service and refuses to go there. Since schools and Uni's all seem to be M$ based maybe the terms of service are in effect there. And tubes... I'm like one of the few here that knows how to design with them because I did. Allison On 10/7/19 10:54 AM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: >> downloaded for free is meaningless to the actual case. Not saying I >> agree with the law they got him on as there should be some exceptions >> but facts are the facts. Btw. This was the first version of the story >> I read that mentioned that Microsoft sold replacement restore disks to >> computer refurbish shops themselves. > > I thought Microsoft would refer you to Dell, and Dell would be the ones > to sell them. > > Had the discs not looked like the original restore discs then he might > of gotten away with it? Trademark infringement and all. Fake Louie. > > It's stupid. It really is a mess trying to restore the OS when the hard > drive dies on machines that ship with recovery partitions and no media. > > I mean, the fact the restore media is on a CD/DVD just says that it's > for old crusty computers. > > New machines have the license keys baked into the BIOS, the Windows tax > is built in. > > But the Netflix Bill Gates docuemntary says he is cool so the young > people trust Microsoft. And of course the beautiful machines Apple was > making kind of went to hell as they focus on telephones, which are > declining. > > Pretty much trapped. > > - Ethan > >> Now if I made a copy of Raiders for someone else or copied it off a >> free TV transmission and sold DVDs of that, it would be a crime since >> there still is a way to buy a replacement DVD or watch/DVR it on free >> TV when it happens to be on. > > But that is different as Windows is protected by a software key, so the > restore disc is useless without it. > >> >> Cheers, >> Corey >> >> corey cohen >> uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Oct 7, 2019, at 7:15 AM, John Foust via cctalk >>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>> >>> At 05:51 AM 10/7/2019, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: >>>> Must be the USA PC World. In the UK they would have tried to sell >>>> you an extended warranty as well which is really just an insurance >>>> policy.... >>>> .. but the question is why PC World. Don't US universities have >>>> student discount stores? >>> >>> University student discount stores? You mean those state-sponsored >>> computer shops that put all the private computer shops out of business? >>> >>> Only 1.2 :-), as for example in a nearby (10K student) university town, >>> there are no longer any private computer repair shops that a non-student >>> can go to as far as I can tell, so I'm actually picking up more business >>> because I'm one town away. >>> >>> - John >>> >> > > -- > : Ethan O'Toole >
