I feel like the two are not mutually exclusive.
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Here's what I think is going on.
ASUS made a deal with someone to send them data for money, so they snuck something in the EULA that said "Yeah, you're gonna give us your data, or you get to have a brick."
Somebody said, "Hey, what if it's a junior high student who can't legally agree to the EULA? That's gonna make it so we could get sued."
Dumb Execs said, "Make it so that you have to say you're 16 first. Kids will just lie and say they are ,so that still protects us from lawsuits."
Developers: face palm
Every accusation is a confession.
That's just what someone keeping sovcits in their basement would say.
You are now our king.
Okay, now I am imagining that you are imprisoning sovcits in your basement and farming them for insanepeoplewhatever content.
I'm doing my ~~part~~ fart too!
You're out of your element, Donny.
I think you're right that OEM licenses are more strict on certain hardware changes, as in they wouldn't give you a pass on a single mainboard change - but you would still get a key from clearinghouse. As far as I'm aware, all retail and OEM keys are hardware bound. KMS/MAK are not.
Judge books by their covers. That's literally what the cover is for.
You're arguing against a point I never made.
We don't have hood ornaments anymore. Regulations in the US in 1968 eliminated traditional fixed hood ornaments - along with implementing all sorts of safety and economy standards - shortly after Johnson signed the Department of Transportation into existence. And that came shortly after Nader's overwhelmingly popular book, Unsafe At Any Speed.
Later spring-loaded and breakaway hood ornaments fell by the wayside for style and aerodynamic reasons, but they were mostly gone anyway.
That's what actually happened. Hood ornaments were, for all practical purposes, eliminated by safety regulations. Whether that specific, or other general, safety regulation is effective or the result of lobbying one way or another is not relevant to actual historical events.
You know full well that so much political news is Onion-y now.
Maybe the Onionton Window has shifted.