> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Jim
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 7:55 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: BSA ads
>
>
> I stand corected - no one ever 'owns' a MS product that they
> purchased here in
> the US.  MS 'licenses' the priveledge to use the software that it markets
> (note: markets - MS is a vendor of computer software and that has no
> implication of how they came to acquire the priviledge of being
> in a position
> to market it).  However, MS believes it is well within their
> endless corporate
> power to force customers to prove that the customer has obtained
> the proper
> licenses to use the products that it markets to them.
>
> Personally, I am happy to see MS trying to enforce its marketing
> license.  Can
> anyone think of a better way to stir the braindead governmental
> and corporate
> licensees?  The more MS exhibits its power, the more people will think.
> When people think, they realize that being held hostage by a software
> marketer is not in their own best interest.
>
> --
sounds kind of like the candyman now wants you to pay him for the candy that
you are now addicted to because heretofore, you have been getting it bundled
in the computers for next to nothing. Not ready for Office 2000 yet? No
problem because Microsoft.Net is on the way! Gee...let's go with ASP. But
hey, Internet Explorer is free.

;-)

America, ya gotta love it. If your commodity is heroin, you can do serious
jail time but if your commodity is a license to use (but never own) a word
processing program, a spreadsheet program, an OS, etc... you get big
dividends.

I guess their giveaway program is now officially over  ;-)

Craig