Comments on: Microsoft’s Frankenbuild

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:22:04 +0000

These guys will re-invent the wheel 1000x over before re-discovering what everyone else already knew was reality:

THERE IS NO SECURITY THROUGH OBSCURITY!

This WGA shit is conceptually the same as any other DRM and doomed to fail. The difference is that this WGA shit cost lots and lots of development hours (the blog even says it was a long time coming.)

The only thing that saves MS is the security updates users need to apply 10 times a day to keep every aol elite haxor from owning your Vista-powered ass.

With many Linux distros already surpassing MS crap in quality, MS’s days are numbered. Fedora Core 6 is absolutely spectacular, and I’ve heard good things about Ubuntu as well. There is a trend happening, and MS is on the losing end of it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:26:48 +0000

“We hope that this action will help get the message out that pirating Windows Vista will have real consequences and will”

that line is just hilarious…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:24:28 +0000

…and, above all, the growing WGA neoplasm is clearly extraneous to the basic OS components, no matter how much effort goes into intertwining the former with the latter.

Unless activation involves downloading some executable code that was missing on the machine (and so can be used to provide some additional functionality), WGA can and will be defeated.