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"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> "Crunchie" <lashing@logidogi.cam> wrote in message
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>> "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
>> news:EDvPd.9182$pE1.5838@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
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>>> "Crunchie" <lashing@logidogi.cam> wrote in message
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>>>> "Fixer" <steve@kelly90.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>> news:420e3065$1_3@alt.athenanews.com...
>>>>> Not wishing to upset the applecart, but I would agree with Tom and I
>>>>> live in the EU and so far as I'm aware it would not be legal and so
>>>>> far as I'm aware you purchase the O/S from Dell for that particular
>>>>> machine with the Licence sticker and its not transferable, however
>>>>> leaving legality behind it would certainly install and you would not
>>>>> need to install any licence number as the Dell copy only looks to the
>>>>> BIOS to see if its a Dell machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> In saying that though the Dell O/S will install on any machine and
>>>>> then it will ask for a licence number, but i know a man who knows a
>>>>> man who knows a man
![Smile :) :)](/data/assets/smilies/smile.gif)
who has installed the Dell ~Win XP pro disk on
>>>>> a non Dell machine then regenerated the number when the 1st one
>>>>> doesn't go through activated it by telephone and then changed the
>>>>> graphics card windows then says you have to phone again to get
>>>>> authorisation , quotes the number given to microsoft they give him a
>>>>> key and its activated again. Of course this is totally iullegal as he
>>>>> does not have a licence sticker
![Smile :) :)](/data/assets/smilies/smile.gif)
.
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>>>>> Another querke as well when we go out to a call to replace the base
>>>>> plastics on a Dell laptop the customer then loses his microsoft O/S
>>>>> sticker unless of course we then tamper with the tamperprrof sticker
>>>>>
![Smile :) :)](/data/assets/smilies/smile.gif)
a scalpel will actually remove it perfectly
![Smile :) :)](/data/assets/smilies/smile.gif)
))
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>>>> A hairdryer to get them off is the easiest way I have found.
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>>>> Their control over the distribution rights (excluding rental) end with
>>>> the first sale.
>>>>
>>>> 1991 Computer Software Directive - Article 4.
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>>>> "Article 4 Restricted Acts
>>>> Subject to the provisions of Articles 5 and 6, the exclusive rights of
>>>> the rightholder within the meaning of Article 2, shall include the
>>>> right to do or to authorize:
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>>>> (a) the permanent or temporary reproduction of a computer program by
>>>> any means and in any form, in part or in whole. Insofar as loading,
>>>> displaying, running, transmision or storage of the computer program
>>>> necessitate such reproduction, such acts shall be subject to
>>>> authorization by the rightholder;
>>>> (b) the translation, adaptation, arrangement and any other alteration
>>>> of a computer program and the reproduction of the results thereof,
>>>> without prejudice to the rights of the person who alters the program;
>>>> (c) any form of distribution to the public, including the rental, of
>>>> the original computer program or of copies thereof.
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>>>>
>>>> The first sale in the Community of a copy of a program by the
>>>> rightholder or with his consent shall exhaust the distribution right
>>>> within the Community of that copy, with the exception of the right to
>>>> control further rental of the program or a copy thereof."
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>>>>
>>>> Crunch...............
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>> ??????????
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>>> What you posted here certainly does not say that. It doesn't say
>>> anything about the 'first sale'.
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>> The FIRST SALE in the Community of a copy of a program by the rightholder
>> or with his consent shall exhaust the distribution right within the
>> Community of that copy, with the exception of the right to control
>> further
>> rental of the program or a copy thereof
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>>> Show me where it restricts licensing an OS to a specific machine.
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>> Why would it mention that? That would be a part of the distribution
>> rights of the first sale.
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>>
>> Crunch..............
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> But it is not a sale of anything. It is a license and right to use. How
> does that apply?
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Its the sale of the right to use, which the European parliament has ruled is
transferable..
Crunch..............