Micro$oft used pirated app for Windows XP?

PB · Post by PB » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:16 pm

http://www.nerdhelp.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3199

See also here for Google Group discussions:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Deepz0ne+microsoft

Does this mean Micro$oft are hypocrites?

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:18 pm

i keep smiling at this. And its even true

maybe someone should mail Sonic Foundry and tell it.

Or should we just keep it in case we ever get trouble with them?
(i have a legal windows.. But, just in case.)

swan · Post by **swan** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:25 pm

That doesn't mean they don't own a licence for the product.

As long as you own a licence to use a product it doesn't matter how you came about to obtain the software.

That is the flaw of licenced software.

You only purchace a licence to use it !

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:02 am

swan wrote:That doesn't mean they don't own a licence for the product.

That might be so, but regardless, every copy of Windows XP now has wav files produced from a hacked version of SoundForge. How embarrassing! That has to have some repercussions... I bet Deepz0ne is loving life right about now...

Here is the article on Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/1 ... =109&tid=1

swan · Post by **swan** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:13 am

Agreed ...

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:23 am

Microsoft wrote the Name of the illegal person in the SoundFiles itself

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Inner · Post by **Inner** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:10 am

I think it's more likely that the people the brought the sound off of initally was the company that priated it, seams more likely to me.. now I'm not one to stick up for windows but, it's possiable.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:14 pm

@Swan: its not legal. Since the crack seemed to put a note in the edited file, it could seem like it has changed the original exe of the editor, wich is strictly illegal no matter if you have a license or not!

swan · Post by **swan** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:24 pm

Everyone's guessing unless the idiot who created the file comes forward with the alleged pirated app - only then will we know the truth.

But frankly - who cares.
Who ever said the guys at MS where angels anyway.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:38 pm

note: i didnt say anthing about if it was true or not, i just said that your conclusion about its legal if you have a license. And that is NOT correct

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:16 pm

They just downloaded those files from internet

Has well has most of the code they use on their own apps...

What do you thing VBAcellarator is for ! eheheeh

PolyVector · Post by **PolyVector** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:48 am