[plug] Schools [taken] out today?

[Michael Hunt]

The other thing I like about M$ business practises is that if you order all
your machines from Dell and sign up with M$ on a select agreement you can't
get the machine from Dell 'naked' (i.e. without a licence). Rather you have
to pay for the licence twice (once when buying the machine and once under
select). It really irks me that you have to pay for the same thing twice and
can only use it once !!!!

Michael Hunt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Hobman [mailto:Russell.Hobman at watercorporation.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 19 April 2002 10:31 AM
> To: 'plug at plug.linux.org.au'
> Subject: RE: [plug] Schools [taken] out today?
>
>
> Goodaye, with regards to the statement below, it is my understanding that
> what MS is referring to is that you cannot transfer the OS from the
> originally installed machine to another machine. it does not mean that you
> cannot use another OS on that machine that was originally installed with
> some MS OS. so once the MS OS is taken off the machine then the
> OS cannot be
> reused anywhere else but it does mean that the original machine is free to
> use whatever OS you like.
>
> just my 2c. regards, Russell.
>
> << snip >>
>
> > Their statement that "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed
> > operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine" is
> > not
> > part of any law of which I'm aware, except that I am not super familiar
> > with the MS EULA.
> >
>