Re: interesting story

["Igor Gueths" <igueths@attbi.com>]

Hi Alex. Now there's one thing that I don't think has been cracked or avoided yet. I think I could use my box to image an nt authorization, and then copy it onto a fat formatted disk for others to use. Now as for tricking Winblows into thinking that jfw is registered under w2k, will have to search the various reg keys for that one.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alex Snow <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: interesting story


> So Do I.  Can't use it though because I don't got jaws "NT authorisation".
> Maybe there's a crack for that also?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romualt.dhs.org>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: interesting story
> 
> 
> > Yeah. A friend of mine surprised me the other day by cheerfully informing
> me that he's got a cd of a cracked copy of windows xp.
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:22:42PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > Sounds just like Microcrap. Hypocritical.
> > > And about that xp activation thing, it's been cracked.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@attbi.com>
> > > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 7:33 PM
> > > Subject: interesting story
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all. Hope this is of interest.
> > >
> > >                       Did Microsoft Flirt With Piracy?
> > >
> > >                   Complaints about open-source software policy reveal
> piracy
> > > rap
> > >                   in France.
> > >                   Kim Zetter, special to PCWorld.com
> > >                   Thursday, May 09, 2002
> > >                   While Microsoft cracks down on software pirates the
> world
> > >                   over, the software giant itself was quietly convicted
> of
> > >                   piracy charges in France last fall--and the case,
> while
> > >                   supposedly under appeal, may cost the company some
> > > business.
> > >                   The French division of Microsoft is facing a fine of
> about
> > >                   $422,000 for illegal use of another company's source
> code
> > > in
> > >                   an animation program called Softimage 3D. The program
> has
> > > been
> > >                   used to create such films as The Matrix, Men in Black,
> and
> > >                   Star Wars. But the dispute itself was cited by a
> > > governmental
> > >                   buyer who contends Microsoft should not complain about
> > > pirates
> > >                   when it is guilty of the same transgression. Microsoft
> did
> > > not
> > >                   respond to requests for comment.
> > >                   Borrowed Code
> > >                   The issue started in 1995 when Microsoft France
> purchased
> > >                   Softimage, a Canadian company that developed the 3D
> CGI
> > >                   animation program Softimage 3D. The acquired company
> was
> > >                   accused of illegally lifting source code from a
> > > proprietary
> > >                   program called Character, developed by the owners of
> Syn'x
> > >                   Relief, a company near Paris.
> > >                   In 1994, Softimage had negotiated with Syn'x about
> > > integrating
> > >                   parts of the Character program into Softimage 3D. But
> the
> > > deal
> > >                   fell through when Softimage demanded all rights to the
> > > code,
> > >                   according to a report in PC World Malta. In 1995, when
> > > Syn'x
> > >                   severed its relationship with Microsoft-Softimage, the
> > > company
> > >                   assured Syn'x that it had removed "some or all" of
> > > Character
> > >                   from its software. But Syn'x charges that
> > > Microsoft-Softimage
> > >                   removed only one part of the code, and retained eight
> > > other
> > >                   functions that Character's developers had registered
> with
> > > the
> > >                   French National Intellectual Property Institute.
> > >                   After Syn'x sent two letters to Softimage and
> Microsoft
> > >                   demanding the functions be removed, the company filed
> > > suit. In
> > >                   1998, Microsoft sold Softimage to Avid Technologies
> but
> > >                   remained responsible for the legal infringements of
> its
> > > former
> > >                   wholly owned subsidiary.
> > >                   Although Syn'x eventually fell into bankruptcy as a
> result
> > > of
> > >                   the case, the program's authors continued their fight.
> > > Last
> > >                   September the Commercial Court of Nanterre, France,
> > > awarded
> > >                   Syn'x the judgment for damages and interest. Microsoft
> has
> > >                   vowed to appeal the decision.
> > >                   Sales Pitch Rebuffed
> > >                   Microsoft's brush with piracy in France came to light
> only
> > >                   this week. The case was overshadowed at the time by
> the
> > > focus
> > >                   on the September 11 terrorist attacks. But recently a
> > > Peruvian
> > >                   congressman raised the issue in regard to a Microsoft
> > >                   contract.
> > >                   Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez corresponded in April
> > > with
> > >                   Microsoft's general manager in Peru over proposed
> > > legislation
> > >                   there that would require any software used by the
> Peruvian
> > >                   government to be open source (or "free software," as
> it's
> > >                   referred to in Peru). Microsoft representatives
> protested
> > > the
> > >                   plan, writing the congressman that producing
> open-source
> > >                   software makes a software company vulnerable to piracy
> of
> > > its
> > >                   intellectual property by competitors. If Peru mandates
> the
> > > use
> > >                   of open-source software by government agencies, it
> "would
> > >                   establish discriminatory and noncompetitive practices
> in
> > > the
> > >                   contracting and purchasing" of software by public
> bodies,
> > >                   Microsoft stated.
> > >                   Nuñez was apparently not persuaded. He replied to
> > > Microsoft:
> > >                   "The inclusion of the intellectual property of others
> in
> > > works
> > >                   claimed as one's own is not a practice that has been
> noted
> > > in
> > >                   the [open-source] software community; whereas,
> > > unfortunately,
> > >                   it has been in the area of proprietary software." He
> cited
> > >                   specifically Microsoft's conviction by the Commercial
> > > Court of
> > >                   France, "for violation of intellectual property
> (piracy,
> > > to
> > >                   use the unfortunate term that your firm commonly uses
> in
> > > its
> > >                   publicity)."
> > >                   Meanwhile, Microsoft remains one of the most outspoken
> > > critics
> > >                   of piracy, aggressively pursuing violators and urging
> > >                   authorities to crack down on anyone who illegally
> copies
> > > its
> > >                   software. The company even went so far as to include
> an
> > >                   Activation Wizard in Windows XP, which prevents
> customers
> > > from
> > >                   loading a single copy of XP onto more than one PC. The
> > > company
> > >                   amended the policy after user outcry.
> > >
> > >
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