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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).
No - once you've installed it on a machine you've used the license up.You can sell the license on on the same machine you installed it on but not wipe and re-load.
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