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> "Product Activation is like the door Nazis at Fry's and other electronics
> stores: the default assumption is that you're criminal until you prove
> otherwise, rather than the other way around.
Try this out:
1. Quit your job (no paycheck!).
2. Take your own money and start a company.
3. Invest your money and hard work to make a software product.
4. Allow your product to be freely downloaded, used, and traded.
5. Try to feed yourself with the profits from this enterprise.
It is very hard to pay a mortgage, buy food, and keep your toes warm by giving
away your hard work. As hard as you may try, banks do not accept source code or
good intentions as payment for mortgages.
Companies don't make products for people to steal. Theft from a big, global,
monopoly isn't "more okay" then theft from a mom & pop store down the
street. Stealing is stealing. The problem isn't activation codes and cops
at the doors of Fry's - its criminals. If nobody stole the software, then
companies wouldn't need to resort to these measures. Such is life.
Furthermore, such measures often tend to present simple trade-offs. Don't
like the guys at the door at Frys? Then don't shop there. Go to Best Buy or
someplace else. Don't like Windows activation? Don't use Windows, use Linux,
Mac, whatever.
Such is the greatness that is America. If you don't like something
or have deep moral or emotional problems with something, there is invariably
an alternative choice that will more appropriately suit your needs, wants, and
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