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Originally posted by Calum:
well, zombie's post was filled with rubbish. sorry.
how do you know how well the guy did his job?
how is some illegal keygen going to help them when the redmond thugs are coming for an audit?
why should this be possible even if the ex system admin did or did not do a bad job etc?
this simply separates those of us who work legally from those of us who are happy with such idiotic nonsense as pissing around with keygens and so on.
[ September 01, 2003: Message edited by: Calum ]
You see, they aren't the ones who would be pissing around with keygens. It would've been the script kiddie who did it. If they got busted for having pirated copies of XP(and they wouldn't, the worst that would happen is thier keys may get blacklisted and they would be locked out if they re-installed the OS again like right)now they could claim that they didn't know what the kid they hired to get the systems running did. They should keep a copy of when the kid was hired, when he clocked in+clocked out and a reference in thier records for what they hired the kid to do(fix the computers like the admin they fired would've normally done)for proof that he did the work, not them.
They legally owned thier copies of XP so they have the right to use the copies. It is simple, if you can't use your legal copy of XP because of a blacklisted product key and you get the run-around from both your OEM and the maker of the OS you get another(working) key by any means nessicary or you pay out the ass to buy copies of what you already legally own. Now I think that purchasing copies of stuff you already legally own just to use it is idiotic nonsense.
How do you know the guy wasn't doing his job properly? From the way it looked in the boo-hoo article they cut him to cut costs and nothing more. If this is the case, did he really deserve to lose his job? You see, people work for a reason.....to survive. If you show up to your job everyday and you do what you are supposed to do when you are supposed to do it there is no excuse to be fired. I don't give a rats ass how much money they are trying to save. Chances are they aren't hurting, they are already making profits...they are just greedy and want more profits. If this is the case(and the way it sounds from the article it is) they deserve what he did to them.
Now if this guy deserved to lose his job then it would be a different story. Then I think that he is definatley in the wrong for what he did and they should find a way to sue him to pay for the costs required to get everything back in-line.
They are retarded for purchasing whole new computers just to get a working copy of XP on each of the systems though. They should purchase a Volume License copy of XP(Corporate Edition) and pay for the cost of the VLK(Volume License Key) so they can legally install that same copy of XP on every one of thier systems whenever they need to with that 1 key. With the Volume License version of XP there is no product activation either so they would never have to worry about this happening to them again.
The reason you are bitching is because you know as well as I know that there are ways of dealing with this that don't involve "switching to Linux" and you know they probably didn't have a real reason to can the admin in question. :rolleyes:
I know that if I got canned from my job for no reason I would be pissed and if I knew of a way of getting revenge on the company I would've done the exact same thing that the admin did(maybe not the exact same thing...but it would be based on the same principle of fucking the corporation who fucked me).
Score one for the overlooked employees!
[ September 01, 2003: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]