Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 346
actually? that's precisely the distinction that Bill is making in the post.
The point is that the software itself is still the exact same thing (the genuine article) regardless of the legitimacy of its license. The *license* may not be genuine and Microsoft would be using the word 'genuine' in its dictionary sense if what we were talking about here were the "Microsoft Genuine Software Licenses Initiative". "Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative" implies that an unlicensed copy of Windows is somehow really a copy of some other operating system that's merely had MS branding applied to it to help it sell.
The point is that the software itself is still the exact same thing (the genuine article) regardless of the legitimacy of its license. The *license* may not be genuine and Microsoft would be using the word 'genuine' in its dictionary sense if what we were talking about here were the "Microsoft Genuine Software Licenses Initiative". "Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative" implies that an unlicensed copy of Windows is somehow really a copy of some other operating system that's merely had MS branding applied to it to help it sell.
