You can't simply assume (speaking morally rather than legally) that if the media isn't supplied with the Mac that the buyer or seller ipso facto are thieves. Other possibilities are that the install media were lost, fell behind a bookshelf, mixed up with tax records in a shoebox or old music CDs in a carton somewhere. Not everyone is careful with their stuff. It may have sat neglected for months and it's paraphernalia dispersed by uncaring parents/housemates/dogs/children. And within a year the new owner will probably want to upgrade the OS and buy a full install anyway. Instead of a Mac gathering dust in a closet, it's now generating more cashflow for Steve Jobs. Legally it's grey, but morally I wouldn't lose a moment's sleep over using a machine with whatever OS it came with. -- Alan At 03:06 PM 3/05/02 -0400, The Poulins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >So what happens to the media that should have come with the Mac? The former >owner kept the legal media for use on another Mac and made the sold machine >illegal. Or the former owner made the Mac illegal in the first place by >loading an OS from a CD that belonged to another Mac. The former owner >could have made the sold machine legal by handing over the OS media that >came with the Mac when new. Then either the former owner or the buyer makes >the machine legal by reloading that original OS. >
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