That's odd, must be hosted on Azure getting DDoS'd all week.
There are a lot of places, some quick googling many sell these, but I've
never not been able to buy from gkeys before.
Microsoft probably DDoS's these vendors tinkering with their profits and
exploiting loopholes for their OEM licenses. Goddamn them, but who tracks
these things. Hmm.
-mb
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 6:29 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Argh. gkeys24 seems to be down. Do you have an alternate source? I'd
> like to make a VM 'legal' by M$ standards (bah, humbug!) ;-)
>
>
> On 6/15/23 18:22, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a place
> > like THIS, as a method of getting Windoze officially licensed, flat
> cheap.
> > <
> http://mail.sendmailco.com/index.php/campaigns/tb637ap0sybfa/track-url/gv224svhyh867/11430a51e55c5971d23f31e2e7ede8b0f9331165
> >
> > It updates itself, never had a problem, and simply just works.
> >
> > As it turns out, Microsoft will sell to the lowest bidder too, ie. those
> > that can't sell $200 licenses in their global economy, when all you got
> is
> > $1.54USD and as good as it gets, they will take it greedily still.
> >
> > Break this down; If you're in the US and well to do, they'll take your
> $200
> > licensing per copy of windoze, but if you're broke, we'll take Pennies on
> > the dollar too, and won't even sue you for piracy.
> >
> > What's to stop you from buying licenses offshow for a massive discount?
> > Hmm.
> >
> > Mind you, these places sell this at a profit too selling windoze licenses
> > for something plus on this cost for dollars per license, but if a dumbass
> > shows up to BestBuy to pay $200 too per license, they'll take their cash
> > too at $200 profit.
> >
> > Do yourself a favor, don't pay the microsoft tax, rather exploit their
> own
> > loophole as they intend poor bastards to.
> >
> > I don't resell this service or make cash on it, but rather enjoy the fact
> > they flaunt Microsoft style hypocrisy so flagrantly. I'd be interested to
> > hear opinions on the legality of this, but after watching picking up
> > microsoft tax like a god-given gratuity, I see this as a good thing
> > not-simpleton users as some retribution.
> >
> > I only use windoze keys from here <http://GKeys24.com> for VM's, it's a
> > lovely thing, and get a bit of a kick out of it even knowing some folks
> > actually pay the full amount for windows.
> >
> > -mb
> >
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