Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: help

date posted 6th February 2008 16:44

Yeah OEM is a lot cheaper than retail. Why anyone would go retail I have
no idea. Support is massive online anyway.


Tony Crockford wrote:
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> On 6 Feb 2008, at 17:39, Phillip Healey wrote:
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>> Its the sellers responsibility to attribute OEM, thus they shouldn’t
>> sell it without the associated piece of hardware. However if you
>> purchase the OEM software without the associated hardware, then this
>> is the responsibility of the seller, not the buyer, and thus you
>> would not be doing anything illegal.
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> As I said - illegally distributed, not illegally used.
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> You got an OEM copy, you can use it. You can't sell it to someone and
> you can't install it on a new machine and there's no support, but it
> was cheap right?
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> ;o)
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