Windows 7 forum: does windows 7 detect pirated software?

...Not only because it is illegal (which should be reason enough), but also because it increases your risk of virsuses and system failure.

Stick with legit software

Cassandra

To be fair, there's no real evidence to support that claim. I'm aware of the theory that Bill Gates swiped a BASIC compiler when he was interning at DEC, but I have yet to see anyone who can offer up any proof of it. After all, the legend is that they took said BASIC compiler, and weren't even sure if it would run as they were on the plane to the meeting to sell it.

And of course they bought QDOS, which AFAIK, was a legit reverse engineering of CP/M. Telling IBM that they had an OS when they didn't is fraudulent, but it's not selling stolen software.

I just hate how people get this idea that Microsoft was this rags to riches story. Bill Gates' father is quite wealthy, and so it's not like if Microsoft had failed early on that Gates and Company would be panhandling on the street corner. Where exactly do people think they came up with the $50K (in 1980s dollars no less, so probably like a quarter million today) they used to buy QDOS?

In any case, please just tell me you're not going to turn into one of those annoying self-righteous Linux users, who can't turn down a SINGLE opportunity to espouse the greatness of Linux. Doing things like trolling Windows support forums, finding people having problems, and posting a rather useless message along the lines of, "I never have this problem with Linux!" I've nothing against Linux, used it off and on since around 1995. It's a nice system in a lot of respects, and in plenty of others it seems perpetually rough around the edges to put it mildly. I've lost count of how many times people have proclaimed some year the year of Linux on the desktop. Maybe if Apple hadn't come up with Mac OS X, which combines almost all the good aspects of Linux (via the FreeBSD base) with the detail oriented Apple UI, that may have actually happened 5-6 years ago.

In any case, be happy with Linux if that's what works for you. Just remember that it's not for everyone, and unless you have something more to contribute than "I like Linux", you probably shouldn't be in a Windows support forum. There is a nice Linux forum here however.

if another companies piece of software is pirated. Some compnaies have tighter control then others on the subject.

Lets see, Apple borrowed GUI from Xerox, Microsoft borrowed GUI from Apple. Apple sued Microsoft for borrowing what they borrowed from Xerox. The rest is just history. LMOMBO

The windows system of MS was STOLEN/ PIRATED FROM Mcintosh. Remember the court case when Apple/Mcintosh attempted to sue but the IDIOT US court decided in their fowl wisdom to award the final decision to MS

To be fair, the US and England have both kind of gotten away from this notion in the whole terrorism paranoia. At least on this side of the pond, the copyright and patent laws passed being way out of hand some time ago and are rapidly approaching ludicrous status.

These days, especially in the cell phone and tablet world, there's absolutely nothing but an endless series of court cases spanning the entire globe, which are all about how this or that cell phone/tablet violates this or that patent which is so broadly and vaguely worded that you could claim virtually anything violates it.

So the long and short of it is, everyone steals from everyone else, and has done so since time immemorial. Time for everyone to get over it.