It always amazes me how people believe they ‘own a copy of windows’. You don’t….and never did. Allow me to quote Microsoft directly:
The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways.
This is how companies have been making money for years. You don’t own a damn thing and have zero rights. You can read this nice little article that blasts Vista but really Windows 7 is only an upgrade…..and do you really think they made it easier on DRM? Ha!
So keep on enjoying being screwed by false beliefs. I’ll stick with ‘open source’ where noone owns it and never has to ever pay for any ‘upgrades’….ever.
