How Many Operating Systems Do You Own......Legally

[JoLLyRoGer]

I was wondering how many operating systems each of you have and how you managed to acquire them. How many of you own them legally, and/or how many did you rip off or copy??

Here is my list.
Dos 6.22............Legal (Kept around from my first PC. AAh, the good old 486 days )

Win 3.11............Legal (Same as above.)

Win 95..............Legal (Upgrade from Win 3.11 version. I bought it.)

Win 98SE............Ripped It Off (So Sue Me, I built a new machine and needed a good OS, so I burned a copy from the CD's at work.)

Win NT4.0 WS........Legal (Sample Included with MCSE Training Kit)

Win NT4.0 SVR.......Legal (Sample Included with MCSE Training Kit)

Linux Mandrake 7.1..Legal (Downloaded CD Image file from FTP and burned it, but Linux is freely distributable)

Linux Red Hat 6.2...Legal (See reason above)

This should be interesting to see, considering M$'s OS's are some of the most pirated software programs out there.

JR..

 

[bigbootydaddy]

MS WIN3.1 came w/ softwindows...windows for performa back in the days i had a mac.

ms win95, came with old compaq (p2 300)

ms 98, gave my UT friend 5 bucks and he bought from UT store for me.

ms 98se, came with new dell

ms 2k, gave my UT friend 5 bucks....and also got office.

hey im attending UT next year, so its an advance

 

[Windogg]

All Legal

IBM DOS 1.1
IBM DOS 2.0
IBM DOS 2.2
MS DOS 3.0
MS DOS 3.3
Compaq DOS 3.34
MS DOS 4.01
MS DOS 5.0
MS DOS 6.0
MS DOS 6.22
Caldera DOS 7.0
MS Windows 3.0
MS Windows 3.1
MS Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
MS Windows 95
MS Windows 95 OSR2
MS Windows 98
MS Windows 98SE
MS Windows NT 3.51
MS Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
MS Windows NT 4.0 Server
MS Windows 2000 Pro
MS Windows 2000 Server
MS Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Damn I'm a geek.

Windogg

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

GEEK!!!

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

GEEK!!!

I think you forgot some, where are the MAC OS's?? LOL


Oops, double post!!

 

[Mem]

DOS 6.22(my favourite,there was something special about DOS)
Win95 upgrade
Win98 os1

 

[VoodooExtreme]

Dos.... Nope
Win 3.11.... Didn't have it
Win95.... Yes, came with my first computer
Win98 english.... Nope
Win98 swedish.... Nope
Win98SE swedish.... Nope
Win2k Pro swedish.... Nope
WinMe english.... Nope
BeOS 4.... Nope
Redhat 6.2.... FREE!

 

[StageLeft]

I don't own any legally - oh except redhat 5.1, but of course I don't bother to use it.

 

[BDawg]

Windows 95
Windows 98 (2 copies)
Windows NT 4.0 (2 copies)
OpenBSD
Mac OS 7
Mac OS 7.6
Mac OS 8
Mac OS 9

 

[Czar]

Dos5.5 - Yes, came with a computer
Dos6 - Nope
Dos6.22 - Nope
Win3 - Yes, same as above
Win3.11 - Nope, got it from a friend, the full 10 disks I think
Win95 - Nope, just copied the important files to my computer.
Win98 - Nope, same as above
Win98SE - Nope, same as above
WinME - Nope, same as above
WinNT351 - Nope, s...bleeh.. you get the point
WinNT4 WS - Nope, ...
WinNT4 SRV - Nope, ...
Win2000 - Technicly legal, I have the original cd, took it from a Dell workstation where I used to work, got lots of systems while I worked there and each had a original Win2000 cd.
Win2000 server - Nope
Win2000 Advanced server - nope

If each would have cost about $50 then I would have bought most of them.

 

[Shack70]

Dos 5.0 (came with my 386sx/25)
Dos 6.0 upgrade (bought it)
Dos 6.22 upgrade (bought it)
Windows 3.1 (came with 386 sx/25)
Windows 95 (got it from MS select series subscription)
Windows 95b (Came with PII233)
Windows NT 4.0 (got it from MS select series subscription)
Windows 98 (got it from MS select series subscription)
WIndows 98 SE(came with my laptop)
Windows 2000 Pro(got it from MS select series subscription)
Linux Redhat (Dloaded it)
Linux Mandrake (Dloaded it)
Linux Pogo (got it on CD for free)

 

[guyver01]

Fully..
Dos 6.22
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Red Hat Linux 6.2
Office 97
Novell 4.11
Novell 5.0
Novell Groupwise 5.5

Slightly...
Windows NT Workstation & Server
Windows 2000 Pro
Win 2K Pro Corporate
Win 2K Advanced Server Corporate
Office 2000 Pro Corporate

 

[Wangel]

Besides the usual MS stuff:

TRSDOS - Older Radio Shack Operating System
CP/M - Older 8080 Operating System

 

[fir3wir3]

win98se - several copies

win2k - Don't use but got it for free at a MS conference

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

For the folks that have Office2000 Pro, what do you do about registering it, since it only runs 50 times if you don't. Not that I've managed to "acquire" a copy somewhere or anything .

 

[ArkAoss]

hmm a free bsd distro,
caldera linux from a book
turbo linux from a network card
turbo linux server from a KVM switch
beos 5 personal, from their website
win 2k uh um er uh
red hat linux from an iso site,
freesco linux, on floppy diskette,
ntfs linux on floppy for recoving ntfs drives
os/2 warp, bro got as gift.
windows 3.11 all the floppys
dos 5 or 6 i think on floppy
win 95
win 98
win 98se from some wheres...

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Oh wait. I didn't figure that "Special" version of Linux would be considered an OS. More like a system utility. Got that one too!!

 

[Cable God]

I just bought an MSDN Universal subsription and got a legal copy of everything under the MS label Got it cheaply off fleabay too



<< have Office2000 Pro, what do you do about registering it, since it only runs 50 times if you don't. >>



try to get a PRE SR1 release of it, don't register and download the updates. If you BUY the SR1 version or d/l a shady version, you must register it. The Pre- SR1 doesn't require you to register even AFTER you install the SR1 patches.

 

[Optimus]

Win 3.11
OS/2 Warp
Win 95
Win 98
Win NT 4

 

[guyver01]

<< For the folks that have Office2000 Pro, what do you do about registering it, since it only runs 50 times if you don't. Not that I've managed to &quot;acquire&quot; a copy somewhere or anything >>



Just do what i do... acquire the &quot;corporate&quot; edition.. no Serial Numbers.. no registration required

 

[virtuamike]

DOS 6.22 ... Came with my IBM 486/33
Win 3.1 ... Came with my IBM 486/33
Win 95 ... Came with my Packard Bell P90
Win 95 ... Came with my NEC P150
Win 95 ... Came with my IBM P233
Win 98 U ... Found upgrade in the Fry's parking lot
Win 98 ... Uhhh
Win NT4 W ... Buddy gave me the OEM
Win NT4 S ... Uhhh
Win 2K P ... Uhhh
Win 2K S ... Uhhh

 

[nickdakick]

<< needed a good OS >>



and to answer the question correctly: None
Ahh wait SUSE Linux on boot CD does that count ?

 

[skywhr]

dos xx
win 3.1x
win 95
win 95 osr2
win 98
win 98 2nd ed
win ME
win 2k pro
win nt4
win 2k server
nt server

 

[DABANSHEE]

Ah...legally?

Mnn

I spose then that's BeOS5 (you can even put it in its own partition with a boot menu if you know how), QNX &amp; all those magazine CDs with Linux OSes on them.

Now as far as all my Windows CDs are concerned, they were legally purchased in Vietnam for about $2 each, but whether they can be legally used in Oz is a different matter.

 

[Priit]

Um, I have about 10-15 OS's, which should be legal (some linux distros, free Unix'es, BeOS, CP/M etc. ). Nothing from M$, no intention to buy anything from them (Me? Pay to M$? You've got to be kidding... )