I have to agree with the above poster, the author seems to have an inherent bias to any form of DRM and is simply applying it to the commercial software vendor that everyone loves to hate. The notion that a company is responsible for maintaining stolen products is ridiculous, yet he makes the assertion as if it was fact.

I also would like to know what validation Security Focus is doing for their columnists as the gross error regarding being able to download security patches without using Windows Update is beyond unacceptable. At best, it's an amateur grade journalism display of lack of fact checking. At worst, the author knew of the fact and wrote complete misinformation to support their biased opinion. Either way, incompetence or agenda pushing, neither of which Security Focus should permit.

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