Windows uses pirated software?

[Choto Cheeta]

Just a Thought, Suppose One has a Windows XP SP2 Vol Licance, for 50 PCs, and at time of Install in a Hurry he uses a Pirated Windows XP SP2 to install in a few system, so ?? will that be called Piracy ??

The thing is U pay for the software, and done, now u use a any copy of the same software and same product version, but there is no harm if u install a Cracked one !!! its ur choice to install a Cracked one to lose out of the Geniune Binifits

but yeak it was a Embarrasment for the company

 

[sakumar79]

@Shailesh, I can understand that on office computers, running illegal software without knowledge from admins is difficult. However, does your company audit your home PCs and your personal laptops? What if someone took their work home, got work done there and brought the finished product back to your office? See, you can only do so much to ensure no piracy involvement...

Arun

 

[47shailesh]

ahaan, you have a small confusion lemme clear it...

You can't bring major part of ur work to home..
If u work on DB than you can't work without DB that has connectivity only from offices or from VPN..
Similar is the case with other tool or sw that u work on...

Only you can bring is small review work or documention work.

In small office like that of some tech mags and small sw contractors this piracy is at peak.. in big Corporate Companies u'll hardly see any policy Deviation..

 

[amitava82]

In big corporation you can't even take a pen drive, CD or any storage media. Forget about carrying work at home.

 

[iMav]

ever seen campuses of infy ... full wi-fi laptops all over the place ... no u will give a stupid reply saying thr was no wi-fi wen this sound was made ... im saying its no big deal to take work out ....

 

[mediator]

Even though MS said they'll investigate, u wanna make early justifications and wanna prove that somebody somehow took the work to his/her home? Whats the need to go to offices then? Everybody shud start working from home!

And if urs is the case then people can also bring virus infected files to corporates? Do u think the source code can be taken home by some employee just like that? How do u know that employee is loyal to the company? And if he's so loyal then why that heavily paid soul is using pirated stuff against the company's rulez?

Yes wifis are there, but if u know well most companies have filters set up. U can only open a few selected sites. In some offices even orkut and similar matrimonial sites are banned. Do u think with companies wifi network anybody can have free access to it and breach the security the policies? How lame do u think companies are? Or r u trying to say MS is lame?

 

[iMav]

to hell with it i dont give a damn about a sound file being edited in a pirated version of soundforge ... if OSC wants to make a hoopla ha about it go ahead ...

 

[gxsaurav]

Only OSC can do that, they won't leave a chance to bash MS.

 

[mediator]

Who is trying so hard and contributing so much of his time to bash APPLE all around in this forums by installing OSX (on non-apple machine ) ? Shud I say "Only windows fanboys r 'sensible' enough to do that?"

Do they think they can write reviews just by having fun just for 1-2 months on OSX (again on non-apple hardware)? HOw many 'years' did they work on windows? The same 1-2 months?

Even though we don't hear about the "flaws", fanboys...some graphic experts/photography experts are trying their level best to make it look like "flaws" and make news in debugging and unit testing department?

Certainly defending MS and giving hallucinated justifications when it itself said that they'll be investigating isn't "sensible". MS doesn't leaves a chance to spread FUD to other areas it doesn't like. Then y r the fanboys so aggravated when the "average joes" are just surprised by the news and questioning the justification given by fanboys?
All they give in reply is "To hell", "only OSC can do that"?

 

[iMav]

look all we are trying to say is that mac os x isnt the best os in the world something tht andy and arya have been saying all this while ... other than we got nothing against mac os x. our problem is with guys who will like salesman try to defend their product tooth and nail even though knowing it isnt as good

MS will investigate but tht wasnt the stand u guys took when the news was first posted here and besides ms will investigate doesnt rule out my theory ...

 

[mediator]

What else do u expect from general masses? Ofcors they'll raise eyebrows when the company which advocates anti-piracy itself is found or 'rumoured' to be using pirated stuff! Ofcors MS says it will investigate. Its a nice strategy to keep the voices down temporarily until they forget the matter. But "all" those people aren't OSC dear. Some are using windows without even knowing anything beyong MS and windows! Its not sensible to say that "only OSC can do that"!
Neways I wont say much about ur fight with Mac guys. Its irrelevant to me. Njoy ur fight with them!

 

[freshseasons]

Whether how secure corporation go or is paranoid about security, it totally depends on the nature of the work the company does..
Like some corporations actually encourage employees to work from home.This is because they save on traveling. IBM,Oracle actually give incentives for people who work from home like for some time sensitive projects.Initially there were apprehensions that the employees will not work efficiently from home,but the actually results from the performance oriented rat-raced scenario put things to rest.
But for small companies scale for example the setup i have for Medical Transcription and Call Centre ,there actually is HIPPA agreement were we are not supposed to provide employees with Pc access as in,Card ,floppy,CD..or email access.
Roughly having 1500 Credit Card information per day of US citizens , We have to adhere strictly to security almost to the level of being totally paranoid freak.
Pirated software are hence totally out of question.
But yes what if someone used a cracked Winzip to unzip a file.
Guess this cannot be found out or avoided!
These are the trifle truth of work environment!

 

[amitava82]

IF a company allows and encourages employees to work from home they must provide necessary resources such as computers and softwares to work on it. definitely the company does not expect the employee to buy all the softwares for the company..

 

[47shailesh]

Like some corporations actually encourage employees to work from home.This is because they save on traveling. IBM,Oracle actually give incentives for people who work from home like for some time sensitive projects.Initially there were apprehensions that the employees will not work efficiently from home,but the actually results from the performance oriented rat-raced scenario put things to rest.

Ahan things r diff then all Sw and lappy are provided by comp... and i again bring it to ur attention that working from home is not woriking independently ur connected to comp n/w via VLAN..

Yes it's not a big deal to bring work home.. even all the drives(USB/optical).. but what if ur working in DB proj you can't work without DB(don't tell you can bring TB of DB to home )

If you work in Some other SW dev firm than u have to have Custom libraries that you can't bring t home..

 

[eddie]

The point of this thread is not to bash any company but to show the people the core of a company that is the forerunner against piracy through out the world. They develop (on daily basis) new methods to harass their genuine customers and claim them as their anti-piracy efforts but they can't get their own act straight? Should I listen a lecture on "Why stealing is bad?" from a thief whose bread-and-butter comes from the act?

If Microsoft were earnest in their efforts and these files were accidentally passed into the OS, then the least bit they could have done in last two and a half years was to replace the files with genuine ones by a simple update. Did they do that? No they did not. Why? Because they give a damn. They just want YOU to follow anti-piracy pathway.

 

[hailgautam]

It may not be correct to blame the whole company because a free lance guy who prepared the music used a cracked software.

Having said that MS should have taken care that none of their products come out with such disturbing things.

 

[eddie]

^ How did you come to this conclusion that the guy who made these wav files was a freelancer?

 

[47shailesh]

It may not be correct to blame the whole company because a free lance guy who prepared the music used a cracked software.

And YES it is total resposiblity of the comp. about the integrity of any product that has it's brand value..

And yes how did u came to know that he is freelancer