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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at 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 at attbi.com>
> > To: <speakup at 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 Nu?ez 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.
> >                   Nu?ez 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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