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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 Viral attackVIA invalid serial propigation 2004-06-01
Penguinisto
Err, such a virus would effectively break the machine anyway, since most of the microkernel requires the computer SSID generated by that serial key to be valid. In order to actually work, the "virus" would effectively have to "reinstall" the OS in a fashion, something that would get noticed almost i...

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