Budget-priced Windows license

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 12:23, Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is illegal, it is probably supporting illegal activities on behalf of the key reseller, and the key may end up randomly deactivating at some point in the future once Microsoft figures out that the key got stolen. (Not sure if that still happens now-a-days, but I believe it used to.) Please don't suggest that people participate in software piracy. I realize that it might seem like, "hey, if it works, it works, that's what matters", but that only works from a technical perspective (which is usually the only one that matters in the open-source world, but not in the closed-source world). From a moral and legal perspective, this is a bad idea.

[1] Please do not top-post on mailing lists.

[2] Secondly, don't shoot the messenger. Saying to someone "if the key
works, use it" is not advocating piracy.

All I am saying, and it is moderate and reasonable, is that it is up
to MS to validate whether keys are legitimate or not. It is not the
end user's concern. It is definitely not the concern of someone
pointing out the most important criterion of whether the key is good
to use or not, which is not whether Windows accepts it, but whether
Windows activates.

If there was a choice of possible (not proven, merely conceivable)
piracy here, it lay in buying a cheap key, not in discussing whether
to use it or not. I am not accusing Ralf of piracy here, note.
Personally for testing and occasional ad-hoc use, I use Win10
unregistered.

My own home machines use their firmware-embedded licences, be those Win7 or 10.

[3] If I were advocating piracy, which I am not, I would point out
easier, but cumbersome, ways to obtain illegitimate Win10 licences
free of charge.


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