[olug] funny, true but funny

[Carl Lundstedt]

T. J. Brumfield wrote:
> Actually, if you're not using that license on that computer, you can
> install it legally on another.
>
> So it would be akin to reusing the screws elsewhere.
>
> My wife's laptop came preinstalled with Windows Media Center. I wiped
> it and put openSUSE on there. When someone else had a dead PC and lost
> her Windows license, I just ended up effectively giving her out Media
> Center license.
>
> -- T. J.
>   
That's a violation of the OEM EULA.
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:XKMlhtB4R88J:download.microsoft.com/download/4/e/3/4e3eace0-4c6d-4123-9d0c-c80436181742/OSLicQA.doc+windows+oem+transfer+licence&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Carl

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Carl Lundstedt
> <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:39 -0600, T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>>     
>>> The license is an OEM license, heavily discounted. Microsoft sold the
>>> OEM license to HP, Dell or whomever. They resold it to you as part of
>>> the bundle. Plenty of retailers tell you that you must buy a bundle,
>>> and don't allow you to return individual components. If I purchase a
>>> piece of furniture from Ikea, and assemble it with my own screws, can
>>> I demand Ikea return the cost of screws?
>>>
>>>       
>> Understandably no, but I'd expect that Ikea would have no problem with
>> me using said screws to build a birdhouse in shop class or selling them
>> to my brother-in-law to use to build his Shopko purchased furniture.
>> How well does that OEM license transfer?  (Ownership is a nebulous thing
>> here and that's my problem with OEM.)
>>
>> I fully appreciate and understand both sides of the OEM argument.  I
>> think the situation is still a little consumer hostile and it's not
>> getting better (and I don't pretend to have the answer on how to make it
>> better).
>>
>> Carl Lundstedt
>> UNL
>>
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