Re: Product Activation

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:16:00 -0700, Fazal
<Fazal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok I think Im alittle confused here. I specifically went through the trouble of resintalling windows from an original CD (as I was originally using a pirated copy) so I could use windows 'legally' and take advantage of the various benefits (SP2, security updates, etc.) Now that I try to activate it, it says my product key has already exhausted the number of times it can be used for activation. Im practically using a brand new CD, I think Ive only used this CD once before and that was to install and activate windows on another computer.


The rule is quite clear. It's one copy (or one license) for each
computer.

Yada, yada, yada, we all know the one license of Windows per computer scam. We also know the EULA license scam.

The EULA was written by a team of lawyers whose only purpose was to state up what you *can't* do with Windows. GPL, OTOH, was written by a human being to tell you what you *can" do with your OS.

As old Abe was purported to have said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time", even though MS would love to do just that.

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