Friday, November 26, 2004

Bootlegged

It is good news that Microsoft offers amnesty to computer owners who unwittingly use bootlegged copy of Microsoft Windows XP. Of course, there are conditions -- which might be used to track the companies that proliferate the illegal copies of the popular OS. Inq7.net has the full story.

It might even be better to make Microsoft WinXP affordable to third world countries (actually, how about making it free?). If there is a free version of WinXP (for poor countries), it might even curb the growing popularity of Linux systems in these areas.
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