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Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.



Shriram Shrikumar writes:
> If someone was to distribute actual loaded weapons to someone who is
> almost certainly going to use it to cause harm - would that not be
> considered aiding and abetting of criminal behaviour ?

They would have to know or have reason to believe that a specific
individual that they distributed the software to was going to commit a
crime with it.  Otherwise selling automobiles would be illegal.

> Should MS not make more of an effort to make sure that at least all the
> boxes of registered users are patched ?

Doesn't their new software rental scheme allow them to forcibly install
upgrades and patches over the Net?
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin



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