Tracy R Reed wrote:
Since Andrew seems interested in doing this legally (or else he would have just made a copy of someone else's software and been done with it) I have to ask: Are Windows licenses even transferable? I heard that they were not. There was even the case of a charity redistributing machine with Windows on them and Microsoft went after the charity saying that the license was not transferable. Some googling suggests that the OEM Win2k license states that it is non-transferable. So be sure to read the license carefully.
WinXP is problematic, but probably *is* legal. However, I have *zero* desire to support the whole XP enslavement ... err ... activation scheme. If I have to reauthorize when I touch my hardware, Microsoft can pound sand.
From what I have seen, most of the Win2K licenses are transferable. The change in Win2K licensing came after people started transferring the licenses around. So, it's kind of a horse and barn door problem.
I don't want to use Windows to begin with, and my needs for it are decreasing with each passing year. However, I still have a few USB devices that demand Windows. VMWare or Parallels combined with a Win2K license works *very* nicely and doesn't phone home to the evil empire.
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