actually if I buy a OEM copy and build a system and then later decide to destroy that system and build another the OEM SW is fine cause I am the OEM.
it is not tied to the HW like dell and hp and the like is, try to install theirs on other hw and it balks. I have gotten away fixing broke machines by replacing the mb with as close a clone match as possible and things work, usually will activate with COA ( once ) but technically a no no. Still is very un fare practice. IMO fp At 02:22 PM 10/5/2006, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with: >Take it up with Microsoft's lawyers. > >They say it's tied to the hardware. You either deal with the license or you >use Linux/BSD. > >The idea is that you buy the OS at a steep discount versus the retail copy. If >the retail copy offers no benefit to the end user versus the 90 days (or >whatever) support, why bother having two lines? > > > >Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >>why? I bought a copy with a PC...my hardware, I own it. I don't need vendor >>support after i know the system works. why should anything be tied to >>hardware and what makes hardware unique? Do we now consider a PC to be a >>disposable unit...don't fix it, change it, or upgrade it....just toss it out >>(OS and all) and get a new one? -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Second Amendment to the Constitution
