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On Wednesday 11 July 2007 07:14, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 23:40 -0400, C Lee Davis wrote: |
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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 |
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> > > optimized AFAIK). Then one could just plop in their key to activate it |
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> > > for reals to get "WGA certifed". |
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> > |
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> > Because, as far as I can tell (and IANAL), that would be illegal. I |
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> > don't have a license to distribute Windows XP. |
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> hm, don't know about the distribution side, but you can sure install any |
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> version of Vista you like, from the one Vista DVD without a license / |
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> activation. Only the one you have a license for can run for more than |
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> 30 days (or some number) though. |
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Does this mean that if my hypothetical imaginary friend were to install Vista |
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on VMWare (I assume that this is VMWare Workstation, not VMWare Player, |
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right?) and take a snapshot of it, then it will always stay active? Or will |
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Vista fire up, read the current date and use that to determine if the trial |
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period has expired? |
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Just curious. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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