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click here. RE[2]: Who? Yoo-hoo! by dru_satori on Wed 22nd Feb
2006 17:27 UTC in reply to "RE: Who? Yoo-hoo!" Member since:
The issues are even deeper than that.  When you agree to a EULA
( legally binding or not, that's a different argument ) you are
agreeing to the terms as laid out by the license. That means a
couple of things, and I think it's worth noting that MS has some
interesting options here.  First and foremost, the OEM licenses
specifically tie that license to that machine. This is so
specific, that in some instance, large corporations would buy
computers that arrived with an OS which they would immediately
wipe and utilize one of their 'per-seat' transferable licenses,
disregarding the license that was part of the purchase price.
What makes the above even more entertaining is that if the
buyers that specified 'no OS installed' were still paying for a
license of Windows until the US Anti-Trust case. This was
because vendors like Dell go