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Old 03-15-2011, 08:28 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
One curious item with XP, for example, is that if you purchased an "OEM" version (already installed on your machine) then you may be permitted to sell it on with your machine but what you are not permitted to do is install that copy on any new computer that you buy.
That's what Microsoft would like you to believe. Germany's Federal High Court of Justice has ruled (back in 2000, I think) that such bundling stipulations are null and void.

Obviously you can't have your cake (sell your copy) and eat it (install on a new machine), too, but transferring that license to a new computer and selling the hardware sans OS is as legal as keeping the computer and installing a new OS on it (and, yes, sell the old one).

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