You don't BUY software, you purchase a license to use it.
Read the EULA End User License Agreement that you agree to
(contract law).
You are free to use open source or write your own software,
but if you want the benefits of Microsoft software
compatibility with hardware and software (imperfect as it
is, it is still the best and most universal), you must agree
to the EULA.
| here's what gets me... even if i have to replace my broken
| axe handle, and then a year later replace my rusted axe
| blade, it's still my axe, right?
|
| if i've got one system, and it's constantly under
| construction... say i'm constantly changing motherboards
| for different uses, replacing and removing drives and
cards
| as needed, all of which i'm entitled to do as it's my
| property, who's authority is it to say that i can't put my
| software on my system when i replace the hard drive? what
| if i decide to replace everything but the hard drive?
| whose authority is it to say that i can no longer use my
| software? if i pay $100 for this thing i damned well
| better be able to use it as i please so long as i'm not
| distributing and/or selling copies. as i understand it
law
| even provides for me to be able to copy my software for
| backup purposes. why then is copy protection legal? am
| expected to call microsoft and ask them to send me a free
| copy if i pay shipping charges?
|
| all i know is that this anti-piracy movement is crap. you
| can't trample one right to correct a wrong.
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Hello all.
| >
| >Correct me if Im wrong.
| >
| >OEM license menas that XP can only be installed on one
| computer
| >and cannot be transferred to any other computer even if
it
| is fully
| >removd from the old computer.
| >
| >Retail license can be transferred between computers only
| when it
| >is removed from the old one?
| >
| >Am I right ?
| >
| >regards,
| >
| >
| >.
| >
