| From: | Martin Baute |
| Date: | 18 Sep 2000 at 11:55:49 |
| Subject: | AMIOPEN: OT: Microsoft licensing policy, was: Console Market, was: Sega |
Hello Petr
On 18-Sep-00, you wrote:
> Hmm, today our czech comp site zive.cz brought article about new MS
> licencing policy. They seem to be just stupid. Now you receive CD with OS
> and small brochure with your ID printed on top of it when buying from OEM.
>
> New policy is introducing another aproach. There will be no CD with
> Windows, nor there will be the brochure. Your ID will be DEPENDANT upon
> your hw components, so you will not be able to install it on another hw. I
> don't believe it - noone could be so stupid .... What's more, the article
> says it will be up to OEMs to prepare recovery CDs for cases something
> goes wrong. Once you change your hw setup - you will have to ask for new
> ID ...
It�s old, but nevertheless true news.
Last I heard was that German (and EC) court was chaecking if this
is at all legal. Anyone with more recent news on this?
Regards
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