The Geek Factor
October 27th, 2004 by Kelson. Posted in Computers/Internet and tagged for GPL, Microsoft, sleepI saw this CNET headline — Microsoft battles piracy with free software — and my first thought was that they were using some GPL’ed/BSD’ed/etc. tool for tracking or some such. No, they’re just giving away free software to people who will let them remotely verify that their OS installation is legit. Which makes perfect sense once you get out of the open-source/Free software (with a capital F) mindset.
In other news, I feel like I’ve spent the entire month of October rebuilding, recovering, restoring, repairing, reinstalling and retrofitting computers.
Strike that. I have spent the entire month doing that. *Sigh*
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Oh, come on. You’ve slept some in between. I should know.