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copy of XP is installed on his AND his mother's computers, last time
I looked that would be 2 (Two). He would be OK if he either had used
his mom's CD Key, which she paid for and owns, but he didn't. Or if
he had uninstalled XP from his own machine, which he made clear he
did not do. If he had done either of these two things then there
would have been no theft, no EULA violation, and no big deal. But he
didn't and that's where the theft comes in to it.
This really is very simple, daygo screwed up his mom's PC when he
flashed the BIOS, which any one of us might have done. But when the
error presented itself he should have gone back to the stable set up
and looked for a video driver that would work with the new video card
instead of destroying his mom's ability to use her bought and paid
for license on her recovery CD. He biffed it and now he's pissed
because others have told him so.
Make no mistake, I do not agree with this current practice of only
providing a recovery CD and not the actual software. I think it is a
major pain in the butt and I can't tell you how many times I have had
to tell someone the bad news because they have formatted their hard
drive and lost their recovery partition, or flashed their BIOS like
daygo did here and lost there ability to reinstall. Alot of time you
can reinstall from a regular Windows CD and use the original number,
no harm no foul. But not always, and it sucks! I think Bill and the
boys have enough money already, they don't need tp be using these
underhanded tactics to make more. But that does not change the facts,
and the facts that daygo screwed up by installing XP twice. It may
not be fair, but that's the way it is and we have to play by the
rules or suffer the consequences. I choose to play by the rules, you
do what you want. But proclaiming software piracy on the
manufacturers own web site seems a bit fool hardy to me.
