In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > That is sale, not support. We are not removing old releases from FTP yet :-) > > But for someone to still want to buy Win3.1 in 2008, there must > clearly be some obscure need for it - in this day and age. Weird, I > know. :-)
I happen to know that. Major OEMs _had_ to deliver machines with a windows version, per agreement with microsoft. Major firms and higher(?) education however have site licenses, also per machine, with significant lower cost per machine then a normal OEM license. So they did order machines from the major OEMs (Dell, HP) with the cheapest licensing option available (Win3.11, OEM price Eur 9 or so), and put their own Windows XP image on it. In the basement of one of our uni buildings there were several containers, each about 1m^3 in size full of 3.1x and 9x licenses, CD without case +certificate shrinkwrapped together (I'm talking about the 2000-2005 timeframe here) So there probably was no need for those versions. It was merely part of a licensing construct/loophole. I'm not working at a company with sitelicensing anymore so I don't know what the current ways are. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
