Re: Installing XP - license question
- From: "ulillillia" <ulillillia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:40:01 -0700
I'm in the slow process of upgrading my custom-built computer. I've got a
new hard drive coming (mainly for speed reasons, capacity isn't my concern)
and it should arrive on Monday or Tuesday. I've got a mix of old and new
hardware, mostly new. My floppy drive is the oldest piece of hardware. It's
7 years old and boy is it noisy, so noisy that it can be heard halfway across
the house with ease (though faint (5 dB)). The next oldest is my hard drive
and keyboard being 5 1/2 years old. Newer yet is either the processor or the
8x CD burner drive. I have a 1.05 GHz Duron processor (and plan to upgrade
to 2.0 GHz, but this means having to get another motherboard.... You don't
really see anything less than 2.0 GHz nowadays.). My other stuff was
designed for XP, my Radeon 9600 XT I got about a half a year ago works quite
well.
"kurttrail" wrote:
> Licensing question aside, since all anyone can do is give you their
> interpretation of it, if you have a computer designed to run Windows 9x,
> then running XP on it, even with it strip to the bones will run slower,
> than 9x.
>
> The best time to upgrade your OS is when you get a new computer.
>
> Now as for licensing, MS's EULA is not a law unto itself, just like
> every other contract is NOT a law unto itself. The final authority of
> its meaning, is not you, not MS, and not all those here so willing to
> present their interpretation of the EULA as an established fact. The
> final authority is that of a court of law. In the thirteen years since
> MS has added its One Computer term to Windows, they have yet to try to
> get a court to enforce it on one single private individual, as MS knows
> that they don't have a very good case. You see, MS's software is
> copyrighted material, and as such, you, as a individual, have "fair use"
> rights to the copyrighted material you have legal access to, so MS's
> EULA claims to usurp your "fair use" rights in your home, through a
> post-sale shrink-wrap license, has yet to be established, so until MS
> gets the balls to prove its CLAIMS, you have every right under the law
> to follow your own interpretation of your "fair use" rights in the
> privacy of your own home.
>
> --
> Peace!
> Kurt
> Self-anointed Moderator
> microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
> http://microscum.com/mscommunity
> "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
> "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
>
>
>
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