Re: Can I use an old license on a new computer?

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norm wrote:


I haven't done a lot of computer shopping in a couple years, but I don't recall it ever being suggested in either advertising or face to face interaction with a sales person that I purchase a Gateway (as an example of one of your cited "good guys") because they provide a true oem installation cd with their computer. I would think that it would be to gateway's distinct marketing and sales advantage to tout such an important customer satisfaction consideration and to advertise such to anyone that would be within eyesight or earshot. :)


You're assuming that Gateway, an amoral corporation motivated solely by profits, would look out for the consumer because.....? And since when did a sales person care anything about the customer, beyond making a next sale. More to the point, since when did minimum wage sales clerks really know anything about the product he/she's pushing.




Do you think that the fact that microsoft benefits from another sale by turning a blind eye to this very, as you aptly stated, "abhorent business practice" of the oem can be justified? Shouldn't someone really need to wear a white hat in this situation?


Why? Why do consumers need someone to babysit and hand-hold them? Why can't they look out for their own interests?



I am not so sure that there is any innocent party in this whole scenario, be it the uninformed customer, the oem and his business practice, or the willingness of microsoft to turn a blind eye to what goes on.

If the customer is afflicted with such wide-eyed naivete, it certainly couldn't be that either the oem or microsoft is blatantly taking advantage of such a dumb customer, could it? ;) I don't expect things to change, regardless of the point any of us see this from, but the discussion of what goes on certainly can't do any harm.



Corporates are in business to make money for their stock-holders. They have no sentiment or morals. Anyone who expects a corporation to act in the consumer's best interest isn't living in the real world. People need to stop depending on a nanny society to protect them from themselves.


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