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Weighing Profits against Peril
Mark Rasch, 2004-05-24

Denying XP pirates the SP2 upgrade would hurt the Internet to protect Microsoft's bottom line.

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Weighing Profits against Peril 2004-05-25
Anonymous
Imposing a requirement on developers to accomodate pirates by creating two version of a service pack is burdensome on the vendor. If they know which copies are pirated, they would be within their rights to disable the product completely - thereby rendering it secure. ;-)

However, back in the re...

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