interesting story

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> Yes you can do it under Linux but I am not a Linux expert so I don't know
> exactly how it was done.
> There are no Registry settings that need to be changed.
> There is only that key file from your hard disk that needs to be copied.

I reckon that dd might be a good place to start.

Cheers.

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> > > > Syn'x
> > > >                   severed its relationship with Microsoft-Softimage,
> the
> > > > company
> > > >                   assured Syn'x that it had removed "some or all" of
> > > > Character
> > > >                   from its software. But Syn'x charges that
> > > > Microsoft-Softimage
> > > >                   removed only one part of the code, and retained
> eight
> > > > other
> > > >                   functions that Character's developers had registered
> > with
> > > > the
> > > >                   French National Intellectual Property Institute.
> > > >                   After Syn'x sent two letters to Softimage and
> > Microsoft
> > > >                   demanding the functions be removed, the company
> filed
> > > > suit. In
> > > >                   1998, Microsoft sold Softimage to Avid Technologies
> > but
> > > >                   remained responsible for the legal infringements of
> > its
> > > > former
> > > >                   wholly owned subsidiary.
> > > >                   Although Syn'x eventually fell into bankruptcy as a
> > result
> > > > of
> > > >                   the case, the program's authors continued their
> fight.
> > > > Last
> > > >                   September the Commercial Court of Nanterre, France,
> > > > awarded
> > > >                   Syn'x the judgment for damages and interest.
> Microsoft
> > has
> > > >                   vowed to appeal the decision.
> > > >                   Sales Pitch Rebuffed
> > > >                   Microsoft's brush with piracy in France came to
> light
> > only
> > > >                   this week. The case was overshadowed at the time by
> > the
> > > > focus
> > > >                   on the September 11 terrorist attacks. But recently
> a
> > > > Peruvian
> > > >                   congressman raised the issue in regard to a
> Microsoft
> > > >                   contract.
> > > >                   Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez corresponded in
> April
> > > > with
> > > >                   Microsoft's general manager in Peru over proposed
> > > > legislation
> > > >                   there that would require any software used by the
> > Peruvian
> > > >                   government to be open source (or "free software," as
> > it's
> > > >                   referred to in Peru). Microsoft representatives
> > protested
> > > > the
> > > >                   plan, writing the congressman that producing
> > open-source
> > > >                   software makes a software company vulnerable to
> piracy
> > of
> > > > its
> > > >                   intellectual property by competitors. If Peru
> mandates
> > the
> > > > use
> > > >                   of open-source software by government agencies, it
> > "would
> > > >                   establish discriminatory and noncompetitive
> practices
> > in
> > > > the
> > > >                   contracting and purchasing" of software by public
> > bodies,
> > > >                   Microsoft stated.
> > > >                   Nuñez was apparently not persuaded. He replied to
> > > > Microsoft:
> > > >                   "The inclusion of the intellectual property of
> others
> > in
> > > > works
> > > >                   claimed as one's own is not a practice that has been
> > noted
> > > > in
> > > >                   the [open-source] software community; whereas,
> > > > unfortunately,
> > > >                   it has been in the area of proprietary software." He
> > cited
> > > >                   specifically Microsoft's conviction by the
> Commercial
> > > > Court of
> > > >                   France, "for violation of intellectual property
> > (piracy,
> > > > to
> > > >                   use the unfortunate term that your firm commonly
> uses
> > in
> > > > its
> > > >                   publicity)."
> > > >                   Meanwhile, Microsoft remains one of the most
> outspoken
> > > > critics
> > > >                   of piracy, aggressively pursuing violators and
> urging
> > > >                   authorities to crack down on anyone who illegally
> > copies
> > > > its
> > > >                   software. The company even went so far as to include
> > an
> > > >                   Activation Wizard in Windows XP, which prevents
> > customers
> > > > from
> > > >                   loading a single copy of XP onto more than one PC.
> The
> > > > company
> > > >                   amended the policy after user outcry.
> > > >
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