>>MS has a peculiar definition of piracy, too. If you buy a PC without WinXX installed you are presumed to be a pirate.
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>Its strange, but I bet if you lost billions of dollars a day in casually copied software, you'd be thinking of ways to get that money back too.

Oh, I forgot: my last PC was purchased without any OS installed. To Microsoft that is presumptive evidence that I am a pirate.

The first and ONLY OS to land on my new box was SuSE 7.2. I haven't run WinXX anything since Jan of 2000. Never will again, either. So, that doesn't make me a pirate. Also, I have used that same copy of SuSE 7.2 to install it on three other PCs!!! None run or contain any WinXX products.

One channel sale, three installations, all legal!

This is why sales counters may be accurate for WinXX sales but are not for Linux sales.... and why Linux sales are blind-siding MS.