Re: Can I activate on more than one machine with this version of XP?
From: Bruce Chambers (bruce_a_chambers_at_h0tmail.com)
Date: 08/30/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:46:17 -0600
Greetings --
I see no contradiction, at all. As a computer technician, I have
absolutely no trouble differentiating between upgrading a computer, or
removing an OS from one complete PC and installing it upon another
distinct PC. What I _don't_ understand is how so many other people
can possibly confuse these two very different actions for one another,
or how this is a "gray" area.
Granted, after a certain number of upgrades, a computer may
eventually become completely different (in constitution) from the
original, but the process is gradual enough so that it remains, for
all practical purposes, the same computer. It started out as my PC,
and it remains my PC, as it were. What the OEM EULA prohibits is
removing the OS from one computer and subsequently installing it upon
a completely new, distinct machine.
According to the EULA, an OEM license may not be transferred from
one distinct PC to another PC. However, this most emphatically does
not prohibit one from repairing or upgrading the PC on which an OEM
license is installed.
Now, some people believe that the motherboard is the key component
that defines the "original computer," but the OEM EULA does not make
any such distinction. Others have said that one could successfully
argue that it's the PC's case that is the deciding component, as that
is where one is instructed to affix the OEM CoA label w/Product Key.
Again, the EULA does not specifically define any single component as
the computer.
Microsoft has, to date, been very careful _not_ publicly to define
when an incrementally upgraded computer ceases to be the original
computer. The closest I've ever seen a Microsoft employee come to
this definition is to tell the person making the inquiry to consult
the PC's manufacturer. As the OEM license's support is solely the
responsibility of said manufacturer, they should determine what sort
of hardware changes to allow before the warranty and support
agreements are voided. To paraphrase: An incrementally upgraded
computer ceases to be the original computer, as pertains to the OEM
EULA, only when the *OEM* says it's a different computer.
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message news:41329CB9.4070909@neo.rr.com... > Bruce, your two posts contain somewhat of a contradiction, in that > at some point (granted that the line is "gray"), an upgrade becomes > a new computer. > > For example: I'm upgrading my computer. I'm getting a new case, > motherboard, CPU, disk drive and video card. > > [Yes, people really do perform "case" upgrades.] > > > > Bruce Chambers wrote: > >> Greetings -- >> >> There's nothing in the OEM EULA to prevent one from upgrading >> the PC on which it is installed. The only restriction is that the >> OEM license cannot legitimately be removed from the first PC on >> which it's installed to be transferred to an entirely different, >> distinct computer. >> >> Bruce Chambers > > Before which Bruce Chambers had also written: > > Greetings -- > > No. An OEM license, once installed, cannot legally be > transferred > to any other computer under any circumstances. > > Bruce Chambers
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