On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 23:40 -0400, C Lee Davis wrote: > Daevid Vincent wrote: > > Why does everyone always assume people are pirates or in search of > > warez. I don't see why someone couldn't put up a copy of XP or Vista or > > whatever that is unactivated, yet all installed and ready to go > > (everything but the CPU is emulated in VMWare, so it could be possible, > > and even the XP CPU is a generic x86 compatible, not like it's optimized > > AFAIK). Then one could just plop in their key to activate it for reals > > to get "WGA certifed". > > > Because, as far as I can tell (and IANAL), that would be illegal. I don't > have > a license to distribute Windows XP.
hm, don't know about the distribution side, but you can sure install any version of Vista you like, from the one Vista DVD without a license / activation. Only the one you have a license for can run for more than 30 days (or some number) though. -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list