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A bit of an aside, but maybe not. I live on the same block as the Cloudfare headquarters. They have a big common space that has open windows to the street. T
by iancmceachern 4y ago
A bit of an aside, but maybe not.
I live on the same block as the Cloudfare headquarters. They have a big common space that has open windows to the street. They have some big projectors that play what are basically Screensavers on the wall in this common space, visible from the street. For months now one of these big wall sized projections has had in large white letters "this copy of office is not legit, please contact Microsoft to purchase a legit license of windows " (I paraphrase a bit). This seems like something they should address, no?
- rat9988 4y agoHave you ever considered contacting them instead of public shaming?
- iancmceachern 4y agoIt's not my job. They know this is an issue, it's literally written on their walls. If they wanted to address it they would have. Edited to add - I did, the night guard didn't seem to care or even know who to bring the issue to.
- jgrahamc 4y agoWell, I didn't know about it because I am in Lisbon and can't see that far. I've ask the office team about it.
- hhhuuuuuum 4y ago
- fogolon 4y agoIt doesn't surprise me that they are heavy on the marketing and light on the detail. Also fits with every outage they've had large enough for others to notice, the root cause is always some embarrassingly simple cock-up that only an intern would make.
- iancmceachern 4y agoI'm replying to my own comment to note that I'm getting downvoted for calling out a big company for what seems like software theft. That seems odd as I'm seemingly not the one in the wrong, I'm just sharing a simple observation.
- jgrahamc 4y agoI doubt you're getting downvoted for that. I suspect you're getting downvoted for your comment having nothing to do with the partial outage. And then going on to argue that you're doing the right thing by posting here and spending effort commenting about your comment rather than telling someone at Cloudflare that you spotted something bad.
- iancmceachern 4y agoI did tell someone, the problem persisted for months after. I told the guy that sits next to the lava lamps.
- jgrahamc 4y agoOK. You've edited your comment to say you told the night guard. Sorry that they didn't communicate this to someone. I've now spoken to the San Francisco office team despite the late hour and it'll be addressed.
- oefrha 4y agoYou’re free to start a Tell HN or write a blog post and post the link here for people to discuss. But hijacking of unrelated threads is not welcome on HN. Check guidelines.
- iancmceachern 4y agoThank you, I understand, I will not do so in the future. Either of these courses of action seem like even more of a public shame, which was not my intent.
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- nottorp 4y agoI strongly doubt they don't have enough office licenses. What's probably happening is no one can be bothered to fix the user hostile copy protection. I bet cracked versions of Office don't display that message, so it's an indication that this one is actually legit :)