Really??? There's a special place in hell for these lawyers. https://gizmodo.com/e-waste-innovator-will-go-to-jail-for-selling-windows-r-1825518742
Old news. Blind needs a better auto-suggestion for existing thread when posting new ones.
Disgusting and shameful. It really shows you how deeply horrible MSFTs culture is.
What a bunch of terrible people for pursuing jail time
He is a thief, who is disgusting?
OEM Windows install will not pass the genuine check unless the machine originally have windows pre-installed, search for SLIC. Those machines before recycled have windows preinstalled, Microsoft already get paid from that bulk license sold to Dell. He is not stealing from Microsoft, instead Microsoft is trying hard to resell the same thing twice for the same machine
Yup, Microsoft trying to screw ignorant consumers who don’t realize that they’ve already paid for their OS. Guy going to jail realizes that many people will just go buy a new machine since a new windows license is quite expensive, creating massive e-waste. Figures out a way to help people reuse the refurbed machines by recovering their paid for OS. Gets sent to jail by msft minions.
How about someone actually read the case than what the media is putting out. The Verge finally wrote something up... https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/27/17293650/microsoft-recycler-jail-sentence-windows-software-counterfeiting-response Read the guy’s emails - clearly he was trying to profit and not doing it “for the recycling”. In any case, Microsoft *did not* open the case.
Wow, shameful. Makes me glad I left MS.
If u dont understand copyright and the concept of IP, you are not fit to be in this industry.
@yakisoba, if you don't understand consequentialist ethics, I don't want you to be part of my civil society.