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Lol, they ban a security researcher from Github for embarassing them, but massgrave's Microsoft Activation Scripts isn't just still on Github but verified? Mak
by mschuster91 5mo ago
Lol, they ban a security researcher from Github for embarassing them, but massgrave's Microsoft Activation Scripts isn't just still on Github but verified?
Make it make sense, Microsoft.
- sgjohnson 5mo agoMicrosoft hasn’t particuarly cared about consumers pirating Windows for more than a decade. I’m pretty sure they make close to 0 money off Windows licensing to consumers.
- thewebguyd 5mo agoA quote from Billy G comes to mind > Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though," Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. Microsoft's attitude has always been if someone is going to pirate an OS, they'd rather that be Windows than a competitor's platform.
- debugnik 5mo agoIs there any other OS that gets pirated these days? Are Hackintosh still a thing?
- mschuster91 5mo ago> Are Hackintosh still a thing? A dying breed, most Intel machines have already fallen out of support and the few remaining ones (e.g. 2019 16-inch MBP) won't get any new OS updates after end of this year.
- throwaway85825 5mo agoPirating windows keeps you in the ecosystem so they can sell ads/games/365/cloud etc.
- bananamogul 5mo agoGithub's anti-piracy enforcement is a joke and always has been. Example: https://lowendbox.com/blog/will-github-ever-remove-this-nulled-whmcs-repo/ https://lowendbox.com/blog/will-github-ever-remove-this-null...