Alan Pope wrote: > Being brutal - not our problem and somewhat "OT" for this list. >
I clearly labelled the topic OT and i stressed that it must be a legal solution. When I started this thread, I had hesitation in bringing a Windows subject to this group - however I felt someone here, might be able to help me. As licence of OEM software goes with the hardware. I thought a lot of people on this list might have faced this problem when refurbishing systems and hence have a legal solution - IANAL and do not fully understand the legality of copying something for which I have a licence and which I can use legally and whether that constitutes /software piracy /, only retrospectively do I think it MIGHT be the case that /sharing/ it is wrong. Therefore I am open to a better solution > My advice would be to call the OEM or Microsoft themselves. > As for the previous advice I was given I think it was given in good faith and no one was attempting any fraud/theft/copyright violations/piracy or anything else illegal. I DID search Microsoft's sites using different search criteria and could not find a solution, I also read articles and MS documents re OEM software licensing. Microsoft would not have been harmed by this, there was no financial loss; in fact probably the opposite, as I was refurbishing the machines and putting them back into circulation; re-installing- XP giving them more opportunities to get even richer , making them dual boot instead of pure Ubuntu boxes. I was not charging for this either We download/copy/share licenced software all the time; as OEM software has all ready been bundled and is only being re-installed it did not occur to me that this was wrong. Obviously if there's a risk of breaking copyright then we shouldn't advocate torrents but I don't think we were '/promoting software piracy/'. I have never knowingly installed stolen/counterfeit etc software nor advocated it - quite the opposite, in fact. Hence my concern that solutions be legal. There must be a legal way of getting a copy of MS OEM software - in the absence of any other suggestion I will try phoning MS next week. Eddie -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
