Warning! The following rant uses strong language and may not be suitable for childish pricks.




















I'm sorry, but I just have to bi[i][/i]tch.

Why do people spend $200-$600 on a single piece of hardware (such as a graphics card, processor, or monitor), spend upward of 1 to 4 thousand for the entire hardware collection, and then pirate a copy of Windows XP Home that only costs like $100 for an OEM version if you don't even feel like shopping around for a good deal on it?

I don't get it!

What good is all of that hardware without any software to run it?

And why to people whine about how bad Windows is, but then pirate it instead of running Linux? I mean if M$ software is so awful, then why use their software?

Or could it be that the whining is just your lame as[i][/i]s excuse (that we all see right through) for stealing the software that you really wanted in the first place?

I just don't get it!

I mean for crying out loud, just because it's a big company doesn't mean they don't have thousands of software engineers slaving day after day, all of whom deserving of recompensation for the hard work they put into the software you use. If you don't like commercialism or don't like the corporate ethics, then put your money (or lack thereof) where your mouth is and support Linux or something. Pirating Windows is not hurting M$ as a company any. If anything, it's still helping them and proving them right.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm just getting really sick of it all.

Amen.

Quit yer bitchin'!

Why does a dog lick its balls?
Why? Because they can.
Why do people write viruses? Because they can and get a rise from it.

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Because they can't download hardware...

exactly...

There are some people that have PCs for about 200$ or less(incl. the monitor) but the hardware just happens so to be able to run XP Home/Pro. They don't have the money to make even a minor upgrade because life is expensive. They have the salary of 200-250$. For a month. And they just can't afford the 100$ OS. But they don't want to stay in the stoneage(running DOS). The only thing they know to that moment is M$Win. Linux seems to them strange and complicated(?). Microsoft failed to make their pricing a little bit more geographically-dynamic. So they've been pirated.
Anyway, there's really no excuse for a theft. It's just that i can understand some of the people that use pirated copies. In the case of spending 4000$ for a PC, well, i think i don't understand it either.

if i used a pirated copy there would be no diffrence for me - i dont use updates (autopatcher xp anyone?), and i crack my ativation cause its total BS when you change your hardware and reinstall windows alot.

Actually is that concidered legal? meh spose it is.

Cracking Windows because the Reactivation is such a pain? That's the lamest excuse.

5 activations within 3 months. If you're swtiching out your motherboard or CPU, you have to reinstall anyways. I've never had to reactivate XP after switching out a video card, NIC, sound card, or after I added a piece of hardware.

Crack it all you want, I don't want to hear you or anyone else whine about how hard it is to crack it.

It takes 3 minutes to call Microsoft and get your key. I've called a few times when I was testing some changes with an OEM license.

The activation itself only takes a few minutes regardless. It takes more time to find a working crack and testing it out after each service pack M$ puts out.

Find a better excuse.

That's no excuse IMHO. I mean hell, we've all been through tight times. When I was stuck without a car and bumming rides from friends and walking a lot for a while there, I didn't steal a car. I scrimped and saved and bought a complete PoS that barely ran because it was all I could afford. And that was a definite need to get to and from work, to get groceries, etc. (Because public transportation wasn't meeting those needs.) Where as WinXP is most definately not a necessity of life. You won't die without having WinXP. You won't lose your job. You won't starve to death because you lost your job. Etc.

You didn't exactly follow my thoughts. Microsoft fialed to make it's prices reasonable in the poorer countries. And yes, you're right, having no money is not an excuse. PC hardware is expensive, though we/they don't steal it. But then again i just mentioned one of the reasons people may do it. It's like answering the question "why do they(do whatever there)...?"

I can see several reasons to pirate windows.

1. Bill stole your girlfriend.
2. Bill stole your software and made it into his own.
3. Bill had your mom assassinated
4. You are a hacker learning to hack windows.

I personally dont have to pay for it as my job provides it for me.

I do have a legal copy that I have run a crack on, because I use it to test hardware and I got tiered of getting the message " your hardware config has changed, you must reinstall windows.

I also have a box with xandros linux, which I adore...

And why should they? Is it now that the world's economics are Microsofts fault? They are a company, there in it for the money.

Because it would be wrong to steal hardware.

AND i dont have to reinstall my hardware every month
it doesnt break down as oftern
it last for for than 6 months
If i had a car and it broke down every few weeks or someone broke into it every few days or if i had to keep adding to it to make it work well or im driving it to work for a very important sale in my job and it crashed or just stopped working..
change cars you say (Linux) i would but linux is solo power and theres no plugs to recharge it to get me to go to all the placers (run all the software) i need.
so im just stuck with this bomb
ps
i will buy now and again..

Why should they? because otherwise they would be pirated man!Damn just think before you talk/write man. Microsoft has the office here you know. They want to sell. Here. At unreasonable prices. Well, who makes them do such a stupid thing in a country that 17 years ago could pirate IBM PCs(yes, they sold those bettered IBMs as Pravez(8/16/32)??

Rationalize - to provide plausible but untrue reasons for conduct. Those who steal Windows have a million reasons for their actions, with none of them being any good. Some of you people who rail that Windows is too expensive are spending over $400 for a graphics card! For crying out loud, a graphics card to play games! This isn't unreasonable? Come on. Ever buy a pair of eyeglasses? $200+ for frames that likely cost less than $5 to make! Are you railing against these things? Are you stealing graphics cards and eyeglasses? Or just anything and everything you can steal and feel reasonably sure that you'll get away with? Rationalize all you want, call it whatever you want, do whatever you want. Just make no mistake, it is stealing, and if you do it, you are a thief. Now rationalize that if you were Bill Gates, you wouldn't mind people stealing Windows from you. Go ahead, I know you can do it.

WTF does that have to do with anything? So Microsoft should lower there prices in a country with no moral ethics? What exactly is your point? Take a hint from your own advice please...

I can see them now... "You know what? People are stealing our product. Maybe we should lower prices so the won't steal it." WTF? The same tards that steal it will continue to steal it...

Part of it is the culture software created with lincensing. Basically the companies producing the software (programs, music, movies) have laws and contracts written in a way that you don't own what you've paid for, your just paying to use it, they maintain control of what you can do with it. In additoin, they're heavy handed. Just read an article that said RIAA is arguing you can't transfer CDs you buy to an IPOD with out their permission. Plus it's expensive, $90 a coputer for XP from a company that has a monopoly. There are people out there that would steal even if it were cheaper to pay for it. Most people, if they feel they're really getting screwed, that a law isn't far or just, will violate it. Look at Prohibition, drug use, especially weed, gambling, the sex trade. A lot of this stuff will end when the software companies accept a reasonal definition of Fair Use. Sometime you have to work outside the law to get legitimate changes.