No to product activation

Just a couple of things wrong with your message.

1. Windows 95 was never a part of product activation?

2. The number you posted (ID# 05697-OEM-0019182-74655) is not an activation code or even a product key?

3. Yes, Microsoft is a monopoly, but being a monopoly is not a crime.

4. What difference does it make how much money Microsoft has in their bank account?

It sounds like your message has more to do with a lot of jealousy toward someone who is successful.

Watch out for those black helicopters.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Tarquin Mills" <person@use.net> wrote in message news:5875d53f4e.Usenet@localhost.local...

> Dear All,
> As Microsoft have a complete commercial monopoly it is time to break the
> Product Activation system. MS software prices could be regulated by
> government e.g. Oftel regulated BT telephone call charges. Or it could be
> made free for consumer or very heavy price reductions for everyone. As MS
> has alot money in it's bank account and does little actual development,
> I propose to put MS product activation codes on the Internet starting
> with this Windows 95 one ID# 05697-OEM-0019182-74655, please send me your
> codes and I will post them on alt.destroy.microsoft and put them on
> www.rebootcampaign.org.uk
>
> No I will not give into TPM, Bill.
> --
> The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) should start an investigation
> into Microsoft's monopoly, http://www.petitiononline.com/oftsucks/
> Reboot Movement (An Anti-Wintel Campaign), http://www.rebootmovement.org.uk
> Court case complete, http://www.windowshaters.co.uk

What a crock of s**t !
For all it's faults, and for all the crap talked about a MS monopoly,
Windows is LOVELY !

( ...except for that stupid Windows Validation registry key that I got rid
of, then had to put back in ! )

regards, Richard


"Tarquin Mills" <person@use.net> wrote in message
news:5875d53f4e.Usenet@localhost.local...

> Dear All,
> As Microsoft have a complete commercial monopoly it is time to break the
> Product Activation system. MS software prices could be regulated by
> government e.g. Oftel regulated BT telephone call charges. Or it could be
> made free for consumer or very heavy price reductions for everyone. As MS
> has alot money in it's bank account and does little actual development,
> I propose to put MS product activation codes on the Internet starting
> with this Windows 95 one ID# 05697-OEM-0019182-74655, please send me your
> codes and I will post them on alt.destroy.microsoft and put them on
> www.rebootcampaign.org.uk
>
> No I will not give into TPM, Bill.
> --
> The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) should start an investigation
> into Microsoft's monopoly, http://www.petitiononline.com/oftsucks/
> Reboot Movement (An Anti-Wintel Campaign),
> http://www.rebootmovement.org.uk
> Court case complete, http://www.windowshaters.co.uk

Ronnie Vernon MVP wrote:

> Just a couple of things wrong with your message.

> 3. Yes, Microsoft is a monopoly, but being a monopoly is not a crime.

Ever hear of the anti-trust act? Being a monopoly *is* a crime.

Alias

Tarquin Mills wrote:

> Dear All,
> As Microsoft have a complete commercial monopoly ...

What's it like to go through life completely out of touch with reality?
i bet you still live with (i.e., sponge off) your parents, don't you?


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You need to do some more research.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
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"ºAliasº" <not@wga.spyware> wrote in message news:e0AGzuWnGHA.1592@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> Ronnie Vernon MVP wrote:

>> Just a couple of things wrong with your message.

>

>> 3. Yes, Microsoft is a monopoly, but being a monopoly is not a crime.

>
> Ever hear of the anti-trust act? Being a monopoly *is* a crime.
>
> Alias

ºAliasº wrote:

> Ronnie Vernon MVP wrote:

>> Just a couple of things wrong with your message.

>

>> 3. Yes, Microsoft is a monopoly, but being a monopoly is not a crime.

>
> Ever hear of the anti-trust act? Being a monopoly *is* a crime.

There is no "Anti-trust" act. Perhaps you mean the "Sherman Anti-Trust Act,"
the "Clayton Act," or the "Wilson Tariff Act." However, all "trust" acts
deal with collusion amongst erstwhile competitors, not monopolies.

Even so, being a monoply is not a crime per se, in fact monopolies are
explicitly sanctioned and encouraged by the very first Article in the
Constitution (Article I, Section 8).

Virtually all knowledgeable people agree that monopolies are usually good
for the consumer. That's why there's no law against being a monopoly. The
arch-monopolist, John D.Rockefeller, drove down the price of kerosene down
from $3.00/gallon to five cents in only three years! This was, admittedly,
bad for the whale-oil industry, but it lit up America.

Microsoft is a practical monopoly, true, but there is a force equally as
powerful that serves as a Microsoft competitor: Microsoft itself. Unless
Microsoft creates new products, to compete against its existing offerings,
the revenue stream essentially becomes a trickle.

So why do monopolies have a bad rap then? It's not being a monopoly that's
bad -- it's the actions sometimes undertaken to achieve monopoly status or
the business practices once monopoly status is gained that generate the
criticism.

Tarquin Mills wrote:

> Dear All,
> As Microsoft have a complete commercial monopoly it is time to break
> the Product Activation system. MS software prices could be regulated
> by government e.g. Oftel regulated BT telephone call charges. Or it
> could be made free for consumer or very heavy price reductions for
> everyone. As MS has alot money in it's bank account and does little
> actual development, I propose to put MS product activation codes on
> the Internet starting with this Windows 95 one ID#
> 05697-OEM-0019182-74655, please send me your codes and I will post
> them on alt.destroy.microsoft and put them on
> www.rebootcampaign.org.uk
>

The government is not the solution. True, Microsoft could be regulated like
BT. But then, the United States (and by extension, the rest of the world)
wouldn't HAVE Windows. In its place would be something designed by the
telephone company, say, UNIX.

There was a time, not so very long ago, when, with every tolling of the hour
by Big Ben, the British Ensign was being hoisted at dawn somewhere on the
globe. Now, with every tick of the Atomic Clock at the National Bureau of
Standards, somewhere on the earth Microsoft Windows displays its opening
logo (often for the fifteenth time of the day).

Norwich says NO to Windows?..

--
Mike Hall
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User



"Tarquin Mills" <person@use.net> wrote in message
news:5875d53f4e.Usenet@localhost.local...

> Dear All,
> As Microsoft have a complete commercial monopoly it is time to break the
> Product Activation system. MS software prices could be regulated by
> government e.g. Oftel regulated BT telephone call charges. Or it could be
> made free for consumer or very heavy price reductions for everyone. As MS
> has alot money in it's bank account and does little actual development,
> I propose to put MS product activation codes on the Internet starting
> with this Windows 95 one ID# 05697-OEM-0019182-74655, please send me your
> codes and I will post them on alt.destroy.microsoft and put them on
> www.rebootcampaign.org.uk
>
> No I will not give into TPM, Bill.
> --
> The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) should start an investigation
> into Microsoft's monopoly, http://www.petitiononline.com/oftsucks/
> Reboot Movement (An Anti-Wintel Campaign),
> http://www.rebootmovement.org.uk
> Court case complete, http://www.windowshaters.co.uk