[Tfug] Microsoft deals

[Jude Nelson]

Someone who commutes frequently will have no trouble doing this.  Also, it
could be done by mail orders.  Additionally, downloadable M$ operating
systems are not always reliable--they may be plagued with rootkits, they may
have been hacked improperly, etc.  These disks, however, are straight from
M$ themselves and come with a vaild software license, so it would be
difficult for M$ to identify these disks in the wild, given that their
"Genuine Advantage" crap will be able to verify these disks as valid
installs.

On 4/20/07, Rich <r-lists at studiosprocket.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:43 am, Jude Nelson wrote:
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> > Microsoft is giving away their office suite for $3 to third-world
> > students,
> > as I understand it (software license included).  Heh--what'll probably
> > happen is the discs will get bought up illegally by first-world
> > resellers
> > and illegally sold for cheap (but for profit) in other parts of the
> > world.
>
> Why? When they can download a full version for free and sell that?
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> And how? Seeing as it won't be *available* here?
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> R.
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