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Paavo
I have searched the M/S site for EULA info on OEM licensing
and have gotten a headache for my trouble - after well over
an hour of searching, I still could not find an answer.
I currently have 3 computers running W98SE. Two are
desktops and one is a notebook. I will be building a third
desktop in the near future. I want to put W2K Pro on all
my systems (I've used XP elsewhere and really don't like
the feel of it) and have seen W2K Pro OEM/DSP volume
licenses available from an internet vendor that I am sure
is reputable. They have been in business for several years
and have high customer ratings.
This vendor sells single W2K Pro OEM licenses ONLY if you
purchase hardware at the same time. However, they also
sell M/S boxed/sealed 3-up OEM/DSP licenses, at a volume
discount, which do NOT require the purchase of hardware. I
would be using these licenses for my personal,
non-business, use and none of these systems will be resold,
nor will the licenses. I will do my own support on these
computers, obviously.
Question 1 - Is what I plan to do in accordance with the
EULA covering OEM licenses?
Question 2 - I believe that other M/S EULA's allow the
installation of a second copy of a single license on a
notebook computer when it is being used by the original
license holder, would this be the case here as applies to
my three desktops & one notebook? (3 licenses)
I want to remain "legal" on my systems, but the $1000+ cost
of 3-4 single "retail" W2K Pro licenses is well beyond my
budget for software. Does anyone here have definitive
knowledge of how these OEM/DSP licenses are granted? If I
ever dispose of any of these machines, the W2K operating
systems would NOT go with them.
Thanks, Paavo
and have gotten a headache for my trouble - after well over
an hour of searching, I still could not find an answer.
I currently have 3 computers running W98SE. Two are
desktops and one is a notebook. I will be building a third
desktop in the near future. I want to put W2K Pro on all
my systems (I've used XP elsewhere and really don't like
the feel of it) and have seen W2K Pro OEM/DSP volume
licenses available from an internet vendor that I am sure
is reputable. They have been in business for several years
and have high customer ratings.
This vendor sells single W2K Pro OEM licenses ONLY if you
purchase hardware at the same time. However, they also
sell M/S boxed/sealed 3-up OEM/DSP licenses, at a volume
discount, which do NOT require the purchase of hardware. I
would be using these licenses for my personal,
non-business, use and none of these systems will be resold,
nor will the licenses. I will do my own support on these
computers, obviously.
Question 1 - Is what I plan to do in accordance with the
EULA covering OEM licenses?
Question 2 - I believe that other M/S EULA's allow the
installation of a second copy of a single license on a
notebook computer when it is being used by the original
license holder, would this be the case here as applies to
my three desktops & one notebook? (3 licenses)
I want to remain "legal" on my systems, but the $1000+ cost
of 3-4 single "retail" W2K Pro licenses is well beyond my
budget for software. Does anyone here have definitive
knowledge of how these OEM/DSP licenses are granted? If I
ever dispose of any of these machines, the W2K operating
systems would NOT go with them.
Thanks, Paavo