[CS-FSLUG] As if that many really care, but here it is anyway.

[Fred A. Miller]

On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:32 pm, Christopher Rose wrote:
> Fred, there is an almost simple way to do that. It is called "monthly
> system registration". All Gates and crew has to do is write into the system
> a subroutine that once a month requires you to register your system. You
> would have to call in, give your credit card number to pay the registration
> fee and get a new registration number that the computer would then verify
> via a website named something to the effect of
> "verify.user.microsoft.org/verify.asp" (or something very similiar). That
> is all it would take. And of course you know that there would be something
> about that in the EULA (which nobody ever usually reads to begin) about
> this process. That basically would make it legal. Maybe I am being over
> simplistic, but that is how it could happen. I just hope that if it does,
> people will be ready to embrace Linux and BSD more fully.

No, that is how it can work, although I'm sure it would be more elaborate than 
that. IF MickySoft is so foolish as to do something like this, users WILL be 
running to Linux and MACs.

Fred

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