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pharmacy@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Patrick B. Parker) writes:
>I can just see MS sniffing out some poor user's drive and finding an 
>illegal copy of DOS/Windows on there that, was put on by the PC vendor
>which the user believes he paid for, and MS sending the software police
>to their door.  They ask him to produce the original disks, and he says
>"They didn't give me any, I didn't know I needed any."
>                              ________ 
>Ryan Gray                   ~/    ^. .^          Programmer
>gray@fastlane.net            | ___(("))          Digital Solutions, Inc.
>gray@jupiter.uta.edu         |/\| \|\|           Bedford, TX

  I can't.  Furthermore, it's an absurd conclusion to make.

  You think Microsoft even *CARES* if Joe Sixpack has an illegal copy of 
Windows or DOS?  I'm sure their perfectly aware of this and accept it as 
the cost of doing business.  People's Orwellian views of modern technology 
are really starting to get on my nerves.

  Granted, I'm fully opposed to software companies, and anyone else for that 
matter, invading my privacy.  But to make such an illogical conclusion gets 
you nowhere.  Microsoft has nothing to gain by expending the effort to bust 
up a single user with a copied version of Windows 95.  Sure they might 
investigate a corporate installation if they are suspect, at least that 
would justify the cost of the investigation/litigation if it was to pan out.  
But you and me?  Hardly.
  
  If you don't like them, or what they do vote with your checkbook.  Nobody 
is forcing you to but their products.