I agree with you 98%. STILL, you are under arrest, poatt!


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
"poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news2DD3FBB-7936-4C7A-8DD5-DCBD3EF24E2E@microsoft.com...
| I guess this is a extension of the original post
| "Oems can be sold according to this site.."
| All I can say if a person has a product that they purchased...
| Win98,Xp or the like and believe it is legit?
| Use it.
| If as in XP passes the "Phone home" verification?
| Use it.
| If someone is foolish enough to make tons of copies
| with the same KeyCode and sell them to the public they will
| get caught. Eventually.
| Even XP with it's verification process can be worked around.
| Win98 really didn't have a workable owner verification process.
| Maybe for large corperations. But not for the Home user.
| And the Licence verification of a business for 98 came through
| add on programs from MS. Not the 98 OS itself.
| A home user could make a copy of his/her's OEM or
| retail OS CD and sell it with their Code Key.
| And MS would not be any the wiser.
| When it goes into mass production and sells
| is when MS may take notice.
| But then again MS does not recognose the
| "Home User" as a legitamate market.
| Everything is still geared to office and business.
| If you are a home user? MS says...
| "Here's some games to play"
| If Home Users were a considered market?
| MS would keep support programs for previous OSs.
| > But you can't sell a new car if all the old ones were still running
| like new. So you stop spare parts production and let the old ones break down.
| But at least the auto makers let "after market companies" make new or
| rebuilt parts for the old cars.
| MS won't do that.
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