Re: Will Dell OEM Vista install on another Dell PC?

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:52:28 -0400, PeterD <peter2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree, *most* people are honest. But the few bad apples, so to
speak, have really messed things up for the reamining honest majority.
The OP is in the 'bad apple' category.

LOL, let's see how judgemental we can get.

The fact is that Microsoft's monopoly steals billions of dollars,
depending on one's viewpoint. Want validation about that? The EU
fined MS about $600 million for unfair trade practices, and that was
just a random article I happened to catch.

For software developers like you, on the other hand, in contrast to my
statement about MS, I do think it's a moral imperative to support
them.

Examples are:

- Acronis True Image -- $49, a good product.

- The company that sells Object Dock, which is a great launcher
similar to the Mac's for Windows.

- Agent 4.2, which I am using to post this.

- The Journal, by David Soft -- much more than a journaling program.
It can be used for info. management, project notebooks, logging.

- All of my Palm software.

- MP3 tag software

.... and many others ...

And I have gotten a lot of software free or at deep disounts, as
stated in another thread, just by asking.

(and I _do_ know how to pirate software, in ways much more efficient
than the peer to peer programs -- I could easily have had most of hte
above)

Even prior to Windows Genuine Advantage I did buy MS products even
though I could have gotten them for free or shared the cost with a
friend. That included Windows XP, all versions of Office since XP,
and all versions of MS Visual Studio Enterprise (or equivalent) since
Visual Studio 6.

The school that I go to gives out free copies of XP Pro, Windows
Server, SQL Server, and other software (even non MS) required for the
classes. It may be time limited.

The student discount for Office 2000, for example, was around $35. XP
Pro, $45. Office 2004 for the Mac, when I dabbled in that, $80.
Office 2007 was try before I buy, I tried, and no thanks.
.

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