MS license question --- Need some help!

Murphe

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Can i sell just the license certificate (OEM Sticker). I know you have to sell it with a piece of hardware but do I have to sell it with the CD? Will a Burned-Backup CD be ok?

Any input would be helpfull.

Murphe
 

Linflas

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Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Might try reading here.

Thats all well and good but what exactly constitutes "the old machine"? I can come with all sorts of scenarios regarding that. That is a new take by MS recently that was predicted by a lot of people back when they first started with all this product activation BS.
 

ActuaryTm

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Originally posted by: Linflas
Thats all well and good but what exactly constitutes "the old machine"? I can come with all sorts of scenarios regarding that. That is a new take by MS recently that was predicted by a lot of people back when they first started with all this product activation BS.
Answer (at least, one answer I should say).
 

Murphe

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Iron Woode

Try the proper forum dude.

What would be the proper forum? I thought this was off topic.
 

3chordcharlie

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Originally posted by: Linflas
Thats all well and good but what exactly constitutes "the old machine"? I can come with all sorts of scenarios regarding that. That is a new take by MS recently that was predicted by a lot of people back when they first started with all this product activation BS.

Well, I'm still using the floppy cable from my long-ago-turned-into-a-linux-router k6-266, in one of my athlon machines.

So AFAIC I'm still using the license on the 'old machine'. (Hey, you can buy OEM software with a cable to qualify the purchase, right?)

The rule is so far beyond meaningless for people who build their own that it's almost funny. I mean isn't it a 'new machine' as soon as you change one single thing?

I don't steal my operating systems, but the machine using the license is doing the same job, and sitting in the same place as the machine that came with the license.
 

Linflas

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Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
Originally posted by: Linflas
Thats all well and good but what exactly constitutes "the old machine"? I can come with all sorts of scenarios regarding that. That is a new take by MS recently that was predicted by a lot of people back when they first started with all this product activation BS.

Well, I'm still using the floppy cable from my long-ago-turned-into-a-linux-router k6-266, in one of my athlon machines.

So AFAIC I'm still using the license on the 'old machine'. (Hey, you can buy OEM software with a cable to qualify the purchase, right?)

The rule is so far beyond meaningless for people who build their own that it's almost funny. I mean isn't it a 'new machine' as soon as you change one single thing?

I don't steal my operating systems, but the machine using the license is doing the same job, and sitting in the same place as the machine that came with the license.

Yeah that was kind of my point. Going by the silly MS logic I can upgrade my machine one piece at a time as long as I keep it in the original case with the sticker. Each time an upgrade causes reactivation I call them up and explain I have upgraded a video card or whatever and I am good to go. :roll:
 

3chordcharlie

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Originally posted by: Linflas
Yeah that was kind of my point. Going by the silly MS logic I can upgrade my machine one piece at a time as long as I keep it in the original case with the sticker. Each time an upgrade causes reactivation I call them up and explain I have upgraded a video card or whatever and I am good to go. :roll:
But God help me if the floppy cable ever dies...

Once I kick the floppy habit completely, I'll just dsconnect the cable and leave it in the case :D