Re: Valid Product Keys for Windows XP SP2 Professional Volume License Edition

Gregg Hill wrote:
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No, I don't see the difference,
What a surprise.

because there is none. You just stated that
again when you said, "I don't think it's right to take something that belongs to someone else."
Um, how can I take something I already have?


Because what you "have" is ONE license for ONE computer. If you install it on MULTIPLE computers, you have taken a license that does not belong to you. You do NOT "have" multiple licenses.

Actually I have a physical CD which is not a license.

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No, can't take something I already have and contract disputes are not crimes.


Typical of you to reply to only a portion of my comment before the point was made about it being a single license.

If you install your single license on MULTIPLE computers, you have taken a license that does not belong to you.

Nope, one would not be taking anything from MS. If one was making copies and selling them with the key without being a reseller, that would be stealing.

Name one court case where in any person using software for non-commercial purposes in the privacy of their own home not strictly in line with the license has been taken to court and lost.

It does not have to be a crime to be stealing, or in your words, taking "...something that belongs to someone else." The additional installations you do on your other computers are taking a license from Microsoft, because the ONE license you bought and now "have" only covers ONE installation. Any installations beyond that ONE are taking from Microsoft.

Taking what from MS?

You do not "have" multiple licenses. You admited that it would be a contract dispute. Why would it be? Duh, because YOU are violating the contract you have with Microsoft if you install it on more than one computer.

It's not technically a contract dispute until MS takes one to courrt over it.

So, again, you are taking something that does not belong to you. You are stealing. And again, so you can comprehend the concept, it does not have to be illegal, a crime, or whatever term you choose to give it in order for it to be unethical, immoral, and stealing, regardless of where you live. If Microsoft is not being paid each time that XP gets installed on a separate computer, then it is not fair to them, and by definition is NOT "fair use." Your unethical country's interpretation of "fair use" is flawed. Something that is "fair" has to benefit BOTH parties involved in order to meet the definition of fairness, which software piracy (copying) does not do.

Once again, yes, you DO advocate taking something that does not belong to you, by advocating that it is OK to install licenses which you do not "have." What you "have" is a single license to use the software on ONE computer. ANY use beyond that is taking "something that belongs to someone else."

Gregg

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No, I advocate that the EULA from MS for windows is unconscionable. No shady company like MS has the right to infringe on my fair use rights or to tell me how to use something I own in the privacy of my own home.
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