On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am facing a dilemma that I am sure a lot of you have faced. I recently > bough a dell laptop which came with Windows Vista Home Premium. So I > obviously got the official windows vista cd. As a normal person i discussed > the specs and the os with my friends. Now one of these friends today has > asked me for the Windows Vista Home Premium CD so that he can try it out. I > know its wrong in principal to give him the cd, its license terms deny it, > and it would amount to software piracy. But if i dont give it, instead of > understanding these principles, my friend would surely think Im just being > mean, selfish. > > Moreover since I work in the software business, supporting piracy would be > a disservice to my own profession and its profits. > What do I do? Do I tell him what software piracy is, and expect him to > understand? I know some of the suggestions would be give him Linux. He is > knowledgable enough to understand whats linux and whats windows, so if hes > asking for windows, he knows what he wants (I assume :-) ) > > For now, took the restricted access, online activation route. Turns out, all he wanted the CD for was to someway get up XP and Vista dual boot running. I suggested do it with grub :-), its the easiest to use. That can work right? > > > -- > Puneet > http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ > Latest Post: javac -g -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ Latest Post: javac -g _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
