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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> hi all, a late reply to this question, i put a machine on freecycle >> admittadly old (1100)duron,40gb hd,256ram and installed 9.04. >> i had 1 phone call and arranged a pickup day,but the guy did not turn >> up,but did tell me he was going to load xp on it.i suppose this means >> that could happen to any machine put on freecycle. >> oh well,happy days ,alex the noob >> > Yup, it can and does happen. Technically you're only supposed to be > able to transfer retail boxed copies of Windows from one machine to > another (unless you have some sort of licensing/subscription deal with > Microsoft - i.e. paying twice for the same thing). At the end of the > day there are always going to be people who will do this, with Windows > XP, Vista etc and there probably isn't much you can do about it, but at > least you're providing the PC with Ubuntu so the recipient of the PC > will have the choice of sticking with Ubuntu or doing whatever with it. > > Rob > > > Agreed. and as I said, if what they do is illigal then it won't come back on us. This is NOT being anti Microsoft or anti commerical software, its staying on the right side of the law and covering our backs. . Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet :Saturday ** June 6th ** : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkocHnEACgkQaggq1k2FJq3hdwCeNSgkWAWHgowelwrHS0pbqcsp vtQAn2uY/jqdjcRShS2R2xRTBiyJ461E =S8os -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html