Re: [Thinkpad] Win 2000 question

This may come as a major suprise to everyone out here, but this is
coming to:

All versions of Windows supported by Microsoft,
and Linux. The Digital Millenium Act requires this for all operating
systems "sold" in the United States. DCM compliance is mandatory by
2004/5. Microsoft is just following the law.

BTW, Microsoft is NOT supposed to take the contents of your hard drive
(as reported by others in the news/press) just the current versions of
any operational software on your system. There is a 'hack' out there
that disables WindowsXP reporting, but this breaks the EULA for
WindowsXP and thus makes your system 'unsupported' by both the support
company (in this case IBM) and Microsoft.

I don't have a problem with Microsoft enforcing the law as written
(blame Congress for this mess up). I do have a problem with them
releasing this information to third parties.

James McKenzie

James H. E. Maugham wrote:

>Julian Thomas wrote:
>
>
>
>>Does SP3 introduce the hateful license agreement that sells your soul and
>>hard drive to Microsloth?
>>
>>
>
>Oh yeah! http://www.infoworld.com/article/02/08/23/020826opwinman_1.html
>
>Along with all of the other sins of XP,
>http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11winman_1.html and
>http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/28/13winman_1.html as a start. Much more
>available in a Google search, although just reviewing Brian's columns is enough
>to get any thinking person upset.
>
>Regards,
>
>James
>
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Received on Thu May 15 00:39:08 2003