[plug] Anyone willing to part with Winblows 98?

[John Summerfield]

> on Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 06:36:51PM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at Malcolm.watt
> le.id.au> wrote:
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> > > As I'm still learning linux, I still have use for windows software
> > > (especially for my wife, who won't be converting her system to Linux
> > until
> > > I'm a virtual expert at it).  Can anyone be persuaded to part with
> > their
> > > Windows 98 cheaply (ie- at a price a person on a disability pension
> > could
> > > afford)?
> > 
> > How much can I pay you to take it?
> 
> 
> So you havent got this license:
> 
> "Software transfer. You may permanently transfer all of your rights
> under this EULA only as a sale or transfer of the COMPUTER ..."
> 
> Ie you cant give away the copy of win98 that came with a new pc
> purchase.

I think if you read the OEM licence, you will find COMPUTER can mean HARD 
DISK DRIVE.

I got the idea from a box Michelle used to bring home a HDD; it had 
previously contained a few Winders and carried the MS OEM licence. Using 
that knowledge, we got Lotus SMartSuite and a HDD for less than APC said 
SS could be had;-)


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