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solo99Nov 3rd 2006 7:05PM

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re: transfer to other machine, let me remind everyone this only applies to a retail bought copy of Vista. If your operating system came pre-installed with Vista, you own an OEM license, and that license is stuck to the hardware you bought. NO TRANSFER AT ALL.

And for the EULA, again, the retail box is full covered of sticker that break when you open them, at several points (the box, the cd case, the paper cd wrapping. And they all say that installing the software requires acceptance of the terms of the licensing agreement. It does not matter if you read it or not (I recomment you do read it) but it is binding.

You never bought software, you always bought a license to use the software. The owner of that copy of windows I'm running right now is Microsoft.

I think of it as a pretty strong case for using software that is not owned by a corporation that can force crap down my throat.

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