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On Monday 22 March 2010 22:04:24 KH wrote: |
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> Am 22.03.2010 23:01, schrieb Stroller: |
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> > On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: |
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> >> Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: |
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> >>> TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows |
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> >>> tax on |
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> >>> all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular |
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> >>> laptop. |
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> >> |
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> >> You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are |
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> >> lucky, the vendor will give you some money back. |
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> > |
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> > Article in The Register about this this week. Dell may be refusing this |
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> > now. |
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> > |
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> > I read in a forum that the wording of the license terms has changed in |
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> > Vista or 7, to (basically) "return the whole system for a refund if you |
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> > don't like these terms". |
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> > |
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> > Stroller. |
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> |
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> In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who |
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> is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) |
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But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only |
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run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft. |
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I'll try running the image of the partition which I made when I bought it on |
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another machine and see what gives if I get the time, but in the past I |
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remember trying something similar and I could not get it to work. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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