John Doe writes:

Assuming David Maynard's claim is true ...

You don't know for sure?

... it is no different than allowing pirates to
steal Windows and later putting the squeeze on us (think Windows
Product Activation WPA).

The "squeeze" is put on pirates, who had never acquired Windows
legally to begin with. Why is this bad?

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