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Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> Why does everyone always assume people are pirates or in search of |
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> warez. I don't see why someone couldn't put up a copy of XP or Vista or |
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> whatever that is unactivated, yet all installed and ready to go |
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> (everything but the CPU is emulated in VMWare, so it could be possible, |
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> and even the XP CPU is a generic x86 compatible, not like it's optimized |
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> AFAIK). Then one could just plop in their key to activate it for reals |
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> to get "WGA certifed". |
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Because, as far as I can tell (and IANAL), that would be illegal. I don't have |
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a license to distribute Windows XP. |
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C. Lee Davis |
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Fantasy Geographic Society http://fantasy.geographic.net/ |
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GCB for GURPS 4e http://fantasy.geographic.net/project/4eGURPS |
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