[Gllug] m$ and donated PC's

[Sean Burlington]

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On Wednesday 01 May 2002 12:31 pm, Mark Lowes wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 10:59, Sean Burlington wrote:
> > It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain
> > with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual
> > donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating
> > system that was installed on the PC.
>
> I think a correction is needed here.  In the case of bundled OEM copies
> of msware it is only licensed for use with the machine in question, it
> therefore cannot be used on other equipment or resold on.
>
> However there is nothing to stop it being removed from the hardware
> (this point is particularly fudged over on the MS site) or thrown away
> destroyed.
>

I was wondering if this could count as misleading advertising.

well the first sentence /could/ be construed as misleading - I don't see how 
the second sentance is anything other than *a lie*

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Sean
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