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When I was part of a large corporation (56,000+ employees) the practice was the same - big legal problems otherwise.
But for the very small business person who is his own computer "expert", or as is usually the case, hires a local "jack of all trades" moonlighting service dude that downloads and installs XP because the owner was stuck with 98 or ME (complete with crashes as these get a bit old). There's more concern for trying to save their business than get excited about a mickey mouse license. In the curent business climate, a lot of these guys are barely getting by - and that's an understatement.
I'm retired; and my only involvement is acting as an unpaid consultant to try to help a number of these guys survive. I'll tell you - most of them will probably survive, but they'll come out of this "new economy" with their savings gone and deeply in debt. Given the current circumstances, I'm not about to point a finger and scold them because I happen to notice that their OS doesn't exactly follow the rules. In all cases, these same people, in a better business climate, plunked down plenty of dollars for some pretty damn lame M$ products. Just maybe their new version (internet XP) could be considered a Service Patch for some of the really lousey versions they paid handsomely for in the past, IMHO.
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