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Your analogy is in error: I wasn’t speeding and running red lights- I was talking about speeding and running red lights- I was not saying how it was done or even where you might find a car to speed in. You will be hard pressed to find a cop that will give you a hard time for that. My point was that to not even speak of something is a little extreme. Also, at no point did I ask for a key gen. I don’t need one, I just reported that a current key gen was no longer working. Several online magazines report on this topic: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/2/20/2523/84913 My only intent was to report on my own experience in hopes that others would agree or disagree with my experience. There are those in the XP community that are interested in changes that MS uses to enforce their verification process. Contrary to your belief, I am not too cheap to buy XP. Exactly the oppisite, I get MS products at a very reasonable rate directly from MS; I paid $30 for a full version of XP Pro and $70 for OfficeXP Pro. I think I paid more to RedHat for my last version of Linux. I can certainly see and agree with your stance that you don’t want this to turn into a “I want that too…” kind of board. I also don’t hate MS for being MS. No one can fault their business acumen that made them the software powerhouse that they are. I can, however, fault their Gestapo ‘cease and desist’ tactics that make forums afraid to discuss anything anti-MS, even though most websites realize that these requests aren’t even enforceable; they are simple scare tactics, and the more people that allow their speech to be curtailed, the less informative the forum will become.

I have heard of turning around and putting your butt in the air, but also putting your head in the sand is just sad. Granted, I fully understand that putting cracks or even links to workarounds is not for the legally sensitive, but to not even be able to speak of something is just a little too much. You do realize that the company you are cowering from was found guilty of breaking a federal law? Is there anyone naive enough to think that they will not again? Of course they will! And if they get punished again they will just wait until a sympathetic administration comes in and they will take their slap on the wrist. These cases last years and the people with money and patience will win in the end. It is a given that MS’s marketing has been brilliant, and that they will continue to press the envelope garnering more and more market share as they go; this the goal of pure capitalism without restraint. But to not even be able to say “XP KeY ReCoVeRER AND DISCOVErER 5.12” seems a little too much like loss of our freedom of speech. What will be next- a MS approved list of words we can use? You can be sure Linux won’t be on it. This is your message system and you will run it as you like, but perhaps you should take the word ‘Forum’ out of your web title; it has the connotation of the free flow of ideas. Perhaps you should consider ‘propaganda’ or ‘party line’, I am sure that the MS Thought Police will have not problem with these.

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the thing that can create a qee and had a version number that was higher than 5.11 and lower than 5.13, doesn't seem to be working anymore.

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