On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Dale Hoogeveen wrote:
> I believe it was CNN who reported that Microsoft is investigating
> several used computer chains (including Computer Renaissance) for
> selling computers with Windows 95 installed without properly licensing
> it. If you purchased a used box from such a place with any Microsoft
> installed, but did not get the manuals or the installation disks for the
> software, you may have unlicensed software. Your name on a customer list in
> such an investigation might get you involved in a mess. Microsoft's
> lawyers are anal about leaving no stone unturned.
Thanks for pointing that out, because the 486 on which I'm writing this to
you was from Computer Renaissance. And yes, they *did* have MS-DOS 6.22
and Windows 3.1 installed on it (despite my wishes that there be *no*
operating system with it), and they did not offer any software manuals
with it. Of course, I immediately erased the hard drive and installed my
own legitimate version of PC DOS 7, after which I added Red Hat Linux.
That would probably satisfy Microsoft's wishes as far as my personal
responsibility in the matter is concerned (and besides, I still have
registered versions of their OSes).
They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by allowing their
customers a choice of software and simply add that to the cost. There are
even free OSes to choose from... ;-)
Jerry
Internet Montana
Red Hat Linux 5.0 / Pine 3.96
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