Author: Alberto Rezza
Date: 10:15:56 08/07/01
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>That is true and you still have that right. So you accept that one can throw away one's old computer and transfer the Windows license to the new one. Actually Microsoft does not accept this, and they are trying to prevent PC makers from selling PC's without the OS (preferably a preinstalled copy of Windows). Isn't that one of the reasons why MS should be split in two? >You do not have this right. If you read the EULA that you agreed to carefully >you will find that you never had this right. One copy of the OS per computer. >If you don't like it, use some other OS like linux where there are no EULAs. Sorry, Scott, but this is total bullshit. (I noticed this word is acceptable in this forum, so I'll use it.. :) If you accept that I can recover the Windows licence from my old broken PC, then you also have to let me disinstall the OS from the PC at home, install at the office, disinstall at the end of the day, reinstall at home, an so on. If, when I work at one computer, the other is turned off, then by skipping the install/disinstall part I am only saving time, but there's no way I can be breaking a licence. Keeping a copy of Windows on a switched off PC's hard disk is just like keeping on its installation CD! Scott, you must not believe EVERYTHING Bill Gates tells you.. Alberto
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