Have a Windows 7 launch house party, score a free copy

mtarm1 (User):

well your a bit late... i knew about this weeks ago. anyway i spoke to a mate from MS AUS last week and i asked him about a few MS stuff, and this came up. he said they had all the places filled up in 10 days... i dont know why you would want to throw an OS party anyway, nice way to loose friends.

mtarm1 (User):

well your a bit late... i knew about this weeks ago. anyway i spoke to a mate from MS AUS last week and i asked him about a few MS stuff, and this came up. he said they had all the places filled up in 10 days... i dont know why you would want to throw an OS party anyway, nice way to loose friends.

Tony23 (User):

Maybe it's a way of avoiding people throwing street parties otherwise known as a "Vista wake".

Aubrey (Cornerstone member):

The Geek party calendar is looking crowded in late October with the Ubuntu 9.10 launch on the 29th. Of course, Linux distro parties are BYO and you have to print your own invites.

Raindog (Senior Forumologist):

Quoting Aubrey:
Of course, Linux distro parties are BYO and you have to print your own invites.

Public domain BBQs may be great in concept, but from a hygeine parspective, is it really wise to share open sauce?

AlexF (User):

This is what you have to agree to:

I agree that as consideration for being permitted to host and/or participate in any of the Activities, I, on behalf of myself and my children and minors for whom I am a legal guardian, hereby grant HPI and its designees (including, without limitation, Company and its designees) and their respective affiliates, licensees, permitees, successors and assigns, and each of them, an unrestricted, absolute, universal, perpetual, irrevocable, non-royalty bearing, and transferable right and license (but not any obligation) to use, copy, transmit, distribute, display, modify, perform, present, publish, transform, create works and derivative works, and otherwise promote or utilize my name, image, likeness, voice, words and/or other personal attribute(s) or other personal information, and those of my children and minors for whom I am a legal guardian (collectively, “Personal Attributes”), captured, photographed or otherwise recorded or memorialized in any manner by myself or any other person in connection with any of the Activities, in any medium or format whether now or hereafter existing (including, without limitation, print, direct mail, online, mobile or wireless communications, radio or television broadcast, telecast or photograph), for any purpose whatsoever (including, without limitation, in connection with the creation, advertising, sale and/or promotion of any products and/or services), and without any consideration or notice to or consent by me or any third party. I, on behalf of myself and my children and minors for whom I am a legal guardian, hereby forever and irrevocably waive any rights any of us may have in or to any of the foregoing, and I understand and agree that HPI and its designees (including, without limitation, Company and its designees) are the exclusive owners (to the extent the materials are created by or at the direction of each such party) of any and all right, title and interest, including copyright, in and to any materials of any kind or nature containing or developed from use of our respective Personal Attributes. Without limiting the foregoing, I understand and agree that such materials may be used in whole or in part, individually or in conjunction with other photographs or images, and neither I, my children nor minors for whom I am a legal guardian shall have any right of approval or notice, any claim to any compensation, or any claim arising out of the use, alteration, distortion or illusionary effect or use in any composite form of any of our respective Personal Attributes.

Basicaly you and your children's privacy is thrown out the window and your public persona will be used, re-used and (probably) abused.

Aubrey (Cornerstone member):

Quoting AlexF:
Basicaly you and your children's privacy is thrown out the window and your public persona will be used, re-used and (probably) abused.


Ever since I started actually EULAs, I have mavelled at the hide of companies in terms of their demands to tightly restrict user rights and expand their own. If governments ever tried such things there would be a bloody revolt. And if people ever went back and actually studied all the licence agreements they have ever clicked through, they would be shocked at how much of their "freedom" they have actually formally and legally assigned to multinational corporations and how little redress they would have if someone ever tried to use those rights against them.

I know that "Orwellian" is now a debased word, but the 21st century version is pretty scary (IMO)

And Raindog, yes, open sauce has some drawbacks. Double dipping of the sausage rolls and backwash in the shared bottle of No-Name soft drink make the whole thing a little too communal for most of us. At least we all end up with the same strain of the herpes virus.

Raindog (Senior Forumologist):

Quoting Aubrey:
I have mavelled at the hide of companies in terms of their demands to tightly restrict user rights and expand their own.

There is no surprise at the depths greed will carry corporations, governments and individuals to.


Quoting Aubrey:
If governments ever tried such things there would be a bloody revolt.

What like strangling major arterial roads to force citizens onto privately run toll roads? Or cancelling contracts with "not for profits" and handing those same contractract to party donators.
No if ever about it, but with public apathy and greed modelling the infamous frog in a saucepan, we can begin to understand why the revolt has not as yet occurred.


Quoting Aubrey:
And if people ever went back and actually studied all the licence agreements

As if.


Quoting Aubrey:
Double dipping of the sausage rolls

And there was me thinking double dipping was having to buy more license to attach extra licensed workstations to a licensed server.

Either practice is distasteful.

petert (Senior member):

Quoting Aubrey:
Double dipping of the sausage rolls and backwash in the shared bottle of No-Name soft drink make the whole thing a little too communal for most of us. At least we all end up with the same strain of the herpes virus.

One of the funniest statements that I've read in a long time. Well done!

petert (Senior member):

Quoting Aubrey:
If governments ever tried such things there would be a bloody revolt.


Are you serious? Before the last election Rudd, stood in front of the cameras and radio mikes on numerous occasions and explained how his economic philosophy was the same as the then Gov't, the Liberals; basically that he was a neo-liberal. Within a few months of being elected, he wrote a 5,000 word essay on how he was against neo-liberalism and how it was responsible for the global economic problems. There was no mass uprising of the masses! And that is just one example from many. I don't want to turn this into a political discussion, but the fact is that governments, and particularly this current government, screw the end users (ie us) all the time!

petert (Senior member):

There is only one reason that I can think of to throw a W7 Party - to screw M$ that way it screwed Vista users, especially Vista Ultimate users. Agree to hold the party, get a free copy of W7 and do nothing. Sure, its unethical, and I in any other circumstance I am against behaving unethically. However, M$ really screwed Vista Ultimate users. M$ promised the world and delivered nothing. It would be a nice piece of irony to do the same to M$ and get a free copy of W7 ultimate in return.

mtarm1 (User):

Quoting petert:
There is only one reason that I can think of to throw a W7 Party - to screw M$ that way it screwed Vista users, especially Vista Ultimate users. Agree to hold the party, get a free copy of W7 and do nothing.

yer but they want you to take photos and write a blog, and aparently if you dont uphold these terms and conditions they will cancel the key... so all you will have is a nice shiny signature edition box. but if only it was that easy... if that would work i'd totally sign up but reading those agreements makes me scared. i think i will read some of the eula's next time i install a program. rofl

petert (Senior member):

I did read the terms and conditions and agree with you. I guess I was being more tongue in cheek than realistic. M$ do ask whether the person would be prepared to talk to the media after hosting a W7 Party. Now that is something that I would also like to do. I'd love to tell the media what I really think about what M$ did to VU users. I've no problem with Vista. It is installed on three machines and runs without problem. But it would be nice to turn the M$ W7 Party into a "Remember what you did to Vista Ultimate users" wake! Again, probably unlikely to happen . . . but it is nice to dream :-)