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Except that he was not giving people "fake Windows" or "98% Windows" or anything other than what people were expecting: Windows. It was just that he made a co

Except that he was not giving people "fake Windows" or "98% Windows" or anything other than what people were expecting: Windows. It was just that he made a copy without first getting permission. I do not really care if a copy was authorized or not, and I feel no more safe getting authorized copies after seeing things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit

close04 8y ago
Except he was, according to his own emails he couldn't guarantee "his" product was 100% identical to the original. The second major argument that you miss because nobody was next to you to read it aloud to you so you can catch it is that he went to prison for putting fake labels on a physical CD and claiming that object is an original. Most likely because of using an outdated copy of the software and low quality CD blanks (and manufacturing process) to cut costs. Whether you feel safe or not is not the point. At least one person bought that CD at a price (NOT 25c) assuming it was original, "guaranteed" by Dell, and would not have paid the price knowing it's just a fake from a guy in his basement so to speak. And if he wanted to "extend the life of electronics" he would have just given people direct links to the free downloads. But he didn't, he wanted to make money by breaking the law. I'm disturbed that this is so hard to understand for some people. I can only assume none of you have ever achieved something worth using or stealing which is why it's hard to comprehend why someone stealing your name to put on their stolen copy is not cool.