Re: Please Post text of WinXP SP2 OEM EULA

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Kerry Brown wrote:


According to the SBL, in North America, no one should be purchasing individual OEM CDs. Any one selling OEM XP this way is breaking the SBL.



Perhaps that's true of any *Licensed System Builder* who sells OEM licenses, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it applies to *everyone*, and it certainly has no bearing on the end user.


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