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by Anonymous User on Tue Dec 02, 2003 at 01:49:23 PM PDT

I'm not at all surprised to see Microsoft top the list. Microsoft was the first large company to plague the computing community with Product Activation. Though touted as an "anti-piracy" measure, this is really a sneak attack on legitimate, paying users of the company. In the near future, Microsoft will be able to force you to upgrade, at your cost, whether you want to or not, by simply refusing to "activate" your computer should you need to reinstall the operating system. Moreover, by making the software so buggy that you need to reinstall it frequently, they guarantee that this time will eventually come. The second runner-up also stumbled over the Product Activation greed pill. I suspect that if Product Activation was listed as a choice for a Turkey award, it would garner the highest majority of votes.

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