Re: Windows XP For Trade??
- From: Joe LaVigne <jlavigne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 5 Mar 2007 03:39:20 GMT
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:05:38 +0000, don wrote:
"Briarroot" <woodsyl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kurt Huhn wrote:
Briarroot wrote:
Bill wrote:
On Mar 2, 5:11 pm, Eric Melby <xeme...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, I basically have a legal copy (OEM) of Windows XP Home Edition,
with the hologram and unused serial number that I would like to
dispose
of.
I was thinking that there might be someone out here who would be
willing to trade some tobacco or a pipe or both for this copy. This is
the 2002 SP2 version still in its shrink-wrapped condition. It's fully
legal.
No, it isn't.
It's not illegal. As long as the software has never been used (still in
the shrink-wrap, etc) then it's ok to sell it to someone else. It would
only violate the EULA if he used the disk to install the software on
another system beforehand. OEM versions of Microsoft operating systems
are legally sold at retail, and you can find them at many online
vendors. For example, see the following link:
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=368&name=Operating-Systems
Once again, Microsoft changes the names to confuse the masses. The term
"OEM license" has, apparently until very recently, meant a copy of
Windows that was included with a computer from a manufacturer. That copy
was never legal for resale, even if you removed it from the computer you
bought, and installed another OS. Now it seems that MS is selling "OEM"
licenses to people that build their own systems.
However, if you buy a Dell or HP (for example) and get a copy of Windows
with it, check your EULA carefully - you may find that you cannot sell
that copy of Windows or install it on any other computer. If they
changed those stipulations, it has been extremely recently, and is news
to me.
I don't know precisely when Microsoft began allowing retail sales of OEM
versions of their operating systems, but it's been half a year, at least.
I was able to find numerous establishments selling OEM disks when I
upgraded from ME to XP last summer.
Selling or trading the re-install disk of the OS that comes pre-installed
on a PC is not permitted since that copy is already in use. The purchaser
has the right to use the OS on only one machine at a time and that right
may not be passed on to anyone else. I think it's permissible to
uninstall the OS and install it on another PC, provided that second PC is
also owned by the original purchaser, but doing so will likely require a
call to MS Support to activate the OS on the new machine.
In Eric's case, he purchased a legal copy of XP [1] but later decided not
to install it. He's perfectly within his rights to trade it. Only if he
had installed it and *then* changed his mind would he have violated the
EULA.
[1] Presuming that eBay vendor was selling legal copies! ;-)
Regards,
Tim Parker ... Germain's Medium Flake in a basket bulldog
--
"Communists are people who read Marx and Lenin. Anti-Communists are
people who *understand* Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan
Why do you people still try to say that other operating systems are better
than windows, I think your just pig headed, any fool can see the M$ has 90%
at least of the market, nothing else even comes close.
don
Market share isn't what determines which OS is best. If you believe it
does, I will also assume that you only smoke drugstore blends in your
pipe, and only drink coca cola.
MS Operating Systems are crap from a security standpoint. M$' marketing
ploys are predatory. The OS is bloated.
The proof is in the pudding. M$ has a huge percentage of the desktop
market, but in the server market, they do not. You know, those machines
that all of the high-end apps run on. The ones that require huge amounts
of stability and uptime...
You are free to run what you wish, but don't assume that your choice is
better because that's what all the other drones do...
.
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