[Am-info] Re: FYE, but on topic

[Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D.]

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:
>O Oracle who is ever up to date,
>What will be the best and worst features of the next Windows OS?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
Microsoft is currently reworking the End User Licence Agreement (EULA)
code for Windows TAO (Totalitarian And Oppressive, not to be confused
with the Tao of Programming). The Top Five New Features will be:
5. Windows TAO will update its licence agreement from the internet as
soon as a new version (of the licence agreement) is released, thus
enabling Microsoft to continuously improve it for Bill^H^H^H^Hthe
user's sake.
4. Furthermore, it will automatically accept all licence agreements for
you, including its own. After all, you don't read them, do you?
3. Microsoft's EULA will be able to infect the licence agreements of
other software running on the same system, forcing the user to pay
licence fees to Microsoft for virtually every program ever written.
2. The EULA text will have a polymorph nature, thus hiding the whole
licence agreement from EULA scanners. This was the only way Microsoft
could prevent detection of malicious text, as it is spread all over the
document.
1. Thanks to dot.net technology, Microsoft will not only remain
informed about EULA violations. As soon as Windows TAO has infiltrated
courts and banks around the world, the whole process will be entirely
automated. This includes filing the lawsuit, judging the case and
retrieving the money from the defendant's bank account.
Thanks to Microsoft's clear marketing strategy and licence policies,
these are both the top best and worst features.
You owe the Oracle a UN convention concerning the User's Rights.

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