Microsoft Genuine Advantage and well piracy
I will admit that i use a pirated copy of Windows, i bought it for 80 pesos at an undisclosed location. 3 days ago my windows XP Professional automatically downloaded patches from microsoft.com (actually it is now and I can't stop it from eating my badwidth)and it said "install updates?" and obviously I said yes. After resetting the computer as it was required, it suddenly said in the log in window "You are not using a genuine copy of Windows..." and it required me to wait 15 secs before I can log in. My computer skills then came in as I tried to removed the bubble that appears every minute that says "You are using pirated software", I then found a remedy of using System Restore to remove it.
Yes i do use pirated software, do i feel guilty of it ? sometimes, because first of all some softwares require me to pay over the internet and that is way beyond me and there is a free way to get them anyway. Lastly, 15 dollars a software ?! that is like more than 750 php, which is 125% of my weekly allowance and Windows has a cost of 9,000 php which is very very expensive. Either way, the EU commission on fair competition has fined Microsoft 375B euros but still can't get Microsoft to pay, so I use pirated software of Microsoft to punish them for the EU commission. I hope that i fair enough, but is it ? Although using MAC would hurt Mircosoft more but till I get that IMAC i will use this pirated Windows.
Yes i do use pirated software, do i feel guilty of it ? sometimes, because first of all some softwares require me to pay over the internet and that is way beyond me and there is a free way to get them anyway. Lastly, 15 dollars a software ?! that is like more than 750 php, which is 125% of my weekly allowance and Windows has a cost of 9,000 php which is very very expensive. Either way, the EU commission on fair competition has fined Microsoft 375B euros but still can't get Microsoft to pay, so I use pirated software of Microsoft to punish them for the EU commission. I hope that i fair enough, but is it ? Although using MAC would hurt Mircosoft more but till I get that IMAC i will use this pirated Windows.