I think that since there is a clear conflict of interest with Vod in these cases since he has a financial interest in Microsoft that he should not be giving negative trust for the sole reason that the sellers are selling MSDN keys.
Everyone who buys a copy of Windows has a financial interest in Microsoft. You want the product you paid for to keep getting patched, don't you?
In my case, I've invested time and money to become certified. I don't work for Microsoft - I work with their products. If Microsoft were to go under, all the money and time I spent would become useless.
IMO Microsoft should take better steps to protect their IP if they don't want people selling MSDN keys like this. I also think their products are generally horribly overpriced and this high price probably factors in a certain level of activity.
Plus it isn't like people can get around needing to have keys to Microsoft products at all - for example using Google sheets to open an excel spreadsheet
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Are you really serious? Apple is more overpriced than microsoft and the second company is more used than the first. So will you give him a negative trust ?
I don't think there is a victim here. You could say that Microsoft is the victim but they need to do a better job of protecting themselves. If/when the keys they sell are invalidated, the products will generally still work provided they are not checking for automatic updates (this should be an easy fix). Plus chances are their customers can afford to get "scammed" multiple times throughout the product life cycle before they would have spent more money on keys verses what they would have paid Microsoft.
I am not advocating that people either buy or sell these keys (I think it would probably actually be best not to trade these keys- but I am not anyone's father on here and cannot make this decision for other people) however I don't think they are scamming.
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