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> That's good. There's a guy on the Torbay Freecycle who often advertises > PCs, funnily enough they seem to come with Windows XP and Office 2003. > Either he's loaded and giving away legal copies he's paid for out of his > own pocket or he's doing something naughty. > > I haven't yet e-mailed him to suggest he gives out PCs with at least > OpenOffice.org, but I must admit I am tempted. > > I mean, what he is doing in general (i.e. rebuilding PCs and giving them > away to people who could make use of them) is great, but if he's giving away > pirated copies with them then he is leaving himself at risk and possibly > others who get the PCs with dodgy software on them. Perhaps the PC's he advertises came with the software in the first place. Personally I have two licenses for XP, one for office 2003 and a full license for a Dreamweaver suite that I'm not using, and I gave away two licenses for XP last year. Once I get around to reinstalling my compaq lappy, I'll have another spare license. As far as I understand it, if you've got the label then you've got the license (although correct me if I need it, I've never attempted to keep up with the mechinations at Richmond). -- 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