Vista's EULA Product Activation Worries

Static M.e.

Pulled this from the SAGE IE but I thought some of you might find it interesting. Very good/scray article on Vistas New Eula, worth a read.

Hi folks,

A seriously interesting/scary view on this licence, to which we will probably have to sign up to.

--Concerns About Microsoft EULA for Vista (20 November 2006)
Mark Rash, a well known attorney specializing in cyber issues, posted an article demonstrating how the Vista EULA pushes contract law to the limit.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/423

[Editor's Comment (Northcutt): This is a must read, a very high quality article. The thought of intentionally making an operating system something that can be disabled over the Internet makes a wonderful legal discussion, but I kept thinking about the ever so clever hackers out there and the potential to somehow, someway, shut down millions of
machines across the Internet.]

regards,
Michael

Martyr

i installed a beta version of it & didn't like it.
the main reason was the pop-up prompts for accessing certain areas of computer, but apparently this has been "fixed" in final build.

Ken Johnson (AKA Skywing) an NT security researcher had good things to say about it on his blog.

Here’s where it gets hairy again. If for some reason the software “phones home” back to Redmond, Washington, and gets or gives the wrong answer - irrespective of the reason - it will automatically disable itself. That's like saying definitively, “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that...”

maybe more people will start using linux instead?

there was something peculiar about this actually, mainly with Microsoft buying $240 million dollars worth of SuSe Linux..then later doing deal with Novell
and all the talk about M$ sueing linux users..

hmm, what are they up to?
obviously, M$ are trying to scare some linux users.

scojones

Read this on securityfocus the other day. You can bet your last euro that I won't ever be installing vista on any hardware I own.