More fallout from WGA failure
Joining the unfavorable commentators on the much disliked “Windows Genuine Advantage” is Scot Finnie at Computerworld. He writes:
Fighting software pirates is an acceptable goal for software development companies. Eroding the user experience for paying customers in the process … that doesn’t work for me. Not everyone can vote by switching. I could, so I did.
But why has the IT industry sat back all these years (I’m also leveling this criticism at myself as a long-time reviewer of Microsoft products) let a company get so big that it is hurting everyone, including itself? The fact that so many people in IT continue to ardently support Microsoft’s increasingly destructive business practices leaves me wondering about human nature. Are we so enamored of de facto standards that we will put up with anything? Because it has come to that.
Update: Also see this ArsTechnica piece.
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