VirtualBox

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 06 August 2014 09:03:30 compdoc did opine
And Gene did reply:
> > Personally, I just run Remove*** on my Win7 boxes so they don't nag
> > me.
> 
> Suggesting that ppl download what is often an infected program to
> remove Microsoft's licensing is stupid and criminal.

With all due respect for Microsoft (very little here) it is just as 
criminal in my mind that they destroy a legally purchased install for any 
detected mis-match in the hardware since the original install was done.

Hard drives, net cards, and even motherboards die.  To be forced to buy 
yet another copy just to have one machine running it, is the sort of stuff 
usually found, fresh and steaming, on the ground behind the male of the 
bovine specie.

We've been fighting with Microsoft over failed installs, and even a 
working install failing because their NT-3.51 & NT-4.0 housekeeping 
deleted a required file, IMO right on schedule because they felt they 
needed another rental fee.  It has happened on my watch more times than 
coincidence can explain.

We have a right to use what we have paid for.  Not a right to run multiple 
copies of proprietary one copy per fee paid per install stuff, but a right 
to run the copy we bought, on the machine OF OUR CHOICE.

Since this isn't a windows support list, you are out of line chastising 
someone for doing the only thing that might salvage the situation.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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