Mxsmanic wrote:

John Doe writes:

Know what for sure?

Whether or not what David says is true.

And what was that?


The squeeze is on typical American families who are not
technically inclined and who would like to install Windows XP on
their kids computer as well.

It's illegal for them to install the same copy of Windows on more
than one machine.

You could drop dead and no one would notice.


And typical American families don't do this, anyway. They buy
machines with Windows preinstalled, so no legal issues arise.

Many computers are handed down.


Anybody who is technically inclined (pirates
included) and most everybody outside of the United States can get
Windows XP for free and install it on all their computers.

Perhaps, but only dishonest people do this.

Scatter brain.


The squeeze is put on ordinary home users here in the United
States.

How?

I think your memory is getting shorter by the minute.


They have Windows preinstalled on their machines,

You are out of touch.


and so they
have no reason to pirate it. Additionally, most of them are
honest, and so they wouldn't necessarily pirate it even if they
had a reason to do so.

They do and they feel justified. Everybody else in the world gets it
for free, Americans don't like being the only support for
Microsoft's empire.