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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Terry Hill wrote: >> 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). > This would make an excellent talk at an event aimed at non linux users with regard to advocacy of free software, or give examples of why we prefer the free software licensing idea, rather than the rather complex and for ever changing world of commercial software. perhaps we can collate some examples of where things get really confusing. Not just with MS licensing but in general, Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details The January meeting of the DCLUG will now take place on SUNDAY 10th January, 3pm at the shoreline in Paignton. Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktM1FAACgkQaggq1k2FJq2BaQCfVVla/345UeqOyzIl3KRP5/Dz wXwAoIWkqNDjnqqiIJ2Mg9PeSci38ZmD =9HdZ -----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