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Originally posted by Cyrax9
Legal, because my Uncle Gave me the Disc and Lisence key as well, which means It's not stolen at all.
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Well, it depends on the license, but most licenses these days are made only with the person who bought the software, and in fact many of the newer licenses leave out the human element altogether and make a contract with the computer instead. Most are not legally transferable.
For instance, that windows 98 CD you got with your old computer - you are not allowed to give this to anyone, even if you're not using it yourself.
Xp is even worse. You're not allowed to buy a new computer and install your own copy of XP on that - you must buy a new copy for each new computer. Hopefully you're not going to change the hardware configuration much either, cos XP sees this as evidence for the computer changing (particularly in the early builds - people would install new RAM and XP would tell them they had to buy a new copy of XP).
Just another facet to my paranoid theory that M$ is trying to set up their own "we own your computer" mentality in their customers in order so that they can take the hardware out of the home...
"May M$ burn in hell" - sweet, sweet words. If anyone is au fait with the
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy then they may just see more than one similarity betwen the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and M$.
"Their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws". Hmm.