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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:21:06AM +0100, KH wrote: |
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> Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick: |
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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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> I am not in that to deep. IIRC oem has no meaning in Germany. This is |
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> part of the license agreement what you have to accept after buying the |
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> software. Law says you have to accept it before or it is not part of the |
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> contract. |
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> I never tried lately but you should be able to install from every Win CD |
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> you find and just use the code from that green sticker. There even is a |
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> tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - like you once |
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> hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to turn legal |
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> again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are done |
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> without installing everything again. |
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> But again I don't know if it works in every constellation nor if it is |
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> legal everywhere. |
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> kh |
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I don't live -too- far off from Germany and take trips down there every now and again. Perhaps I should consider my next laptop purchase when I'm there. |
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Zeerak Waseem |
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