Re: [Hampshire] 22% of Windows Installs Non-Genuine

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Author: Andy Smith
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] 22% of Windows Installs Non-Genuine

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gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Fri Jan 26 11:10:47 2007 GMT
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:32AM +0000, John Hunt wrote:
> They don't, that's what we do at Soton Uni. There's one key and one
> iso for all the XP pro installs there.


Most likely because you have a volume license key specifically for
that purpose; pretty common in any large organisation or
medium-large enterprise. I think Alan is referring to the illegal
sharing of individual license keys.

It seems to me that once you get past a certain number of machines,
the cost of VLK is more attractive than the real possibility of
being shopped to Microsoft by a disgruntled person who gets rewarded
for doing so.

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