Microsoft busted - used pirated software

[dbalaski]

Way way too funny --

I don't think boring at all.
The irony here -  The company that raises the issue of  "Illegal copies of its os" (and hellish activation) are proven to be using priated software -- Or at least one of their subcontractors.  

I thought the expression was:
He who is without sin shall throw the first stone...

The revised line for MS should be:
He who is with the least amount of sins  shall throw the first stone.

 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[FastRobPlus]

Read the article - it says the file was created with pirated software, but the issue now becomes: did they create the file, or buy it for use in the product from a media provider who takes responisbility for the content?  The answer is likely the latter.  My understanding is that this company generally obtains thier media from 3rd parties, and that media is sold with the undersatanding that the supplier of the media is responsible for the rights.  They would not be a subcontractor in this case. So it's a titilating story, but likely nothing more.


>>  are proven to be using priated software -- Or at least one of their subcontractors.

While the article would like the gulible to believe this, it does not say it outright, as that would likely be incorrect.

[FastRobPlus]

But judging from all the :roflmao:  this is not something an Amiga fanatic wants to hear.

[Wolfe]

Windows, from the beginning was all about stealing from others.  Take a good idea and make it ours.  Look back to early windblows.  If Micro$ had an original idea it would be in the guinness disc of records.   :lol:

[iamaboringperson]

That's funny. But I'm not too supprised.

I thought they could actually employ programmers to write the software.

It's quite possible that they're using all sorts of other stolen technologies. I wouldn't be supprised! ;-)

[FastRobPlus]

Read the article - it says the file was created with pirated software, but the issue now becomes: did they create the file, or buy it for use in the product from a media provider who takes responisbility for the content? The answer is likely the latter. My understanding is that this company generally obtains thier media from 3rd parties, and that media is sold with the undersatanding that the supplier of the media is responsible for the rights. They would not be a subcontractor in this case. So it's a titilating story, but likely nothing more.


>> are proven to be using priated software -- Or at least one of their subcontractors.

While the article would like the gulible to believe this, it does not say it outright, as that would likely be incorrect.

[Dr_Righteous]

Score one for the crackers tho... I mean it's not every day someones sig ends up in a major software distro. Think about it, the author of the crack just tagged half the worlds PCs without even trying! Impressive, most impressive!

[Waccoon]

Let me get this straight...  Microsoft is using a hugely expensive audio program to create those dinky, extrememly lame sounds that play when Windows boots up?

They should have used Goldwave.  

Seriously, I'm disappointed with this.  An audio file with a cracked signature is more like a minor slip, and was probably just one guy at Microsoft not thinking straight.  I would've been more interested if they had been caught pirating a $10,000 3D application and got an entire team to use it to create, like, half of their graphics.