Alias wrote:
> Kerry Brown wrote:
>
> OEM Offiice product cannot be sold without installing it on a system.
> <<
> Perhaps in your country this is true but I can buy Office OEMs with a
> pretty MS box all day long without installing them on *anything*.

You can here as well. That wasn't the point. The point was that technically
this is against the agreement the OEM entered into with Microsoft. If
Microsoft wanted to they could try to enforce this by a couple of different
methods, 1) quit selling to OEMs who break the agreement or 2) sue the OEMs
who break the agreement. The end user who purchases the software is doing
nothing wrong in this case. Possibly the OEM is doing nothing wrong as well.
To the best of my knowledge this particular agreement has never been tested
in court. Personally as an OEM I abide by the agreement for the simple
reason that I agreed to it. Obviously ethics differ among resellers.

Kerry