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Even product activation wasn't as evil as everyone says it is
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To (almost) quote Benjamin Franklin;
Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both.
It's what's known as a slippery slope, manasecret. If they told you now that they weren't going to let you do X - such as they're doing with the introduction of Digital Rights Manglement - you'd tell them where to stick it. But if they do it gradually, you'll be lucky if anyone even notices. Already there are even people that believe DRM is
good for them, the customer. Victims of FUD and all the usual marketing claptrap.
The big deal for me is I want to OWN the software I use. I don't want to have to go begging to some corporation every time I upgrade bits of kit, something I do an awful lot. I don't want to be told I'm not allowed to use such-and-such a thing any more, and I don't want to be told it's "illegal" to rip CD's to ogg vorbis (or MP3+ to you). My computer should be just that;
I should be lord and master of all within it, and frankly the way MS is going, in three years time they're going to be telling you exactly what you can and can't do with it. So I've weaned myself off the crack now, so I no longer have to suck at MS's teat for ever more. Neither do I condone supporting a (legally proven) monopoly and stifling free trade and innovation, but then that's another rant.
I'll give you the thing with Win2k being crap at games though. There's some old ones I can't run under Windows any more (I have to use Linux, quelle suprise). But all "compatibility mode" does is include a load of old libs from the 9x tree. There's no reason these couldn't have been included with Win2k, onlt MS thought that ME was for that, since 2k is solely aimed at corporates.
Both versions of XP are essentially identical, so this wasn't an issue any more.