Re: Transfer XP Pro To New Computer

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Because they don't prosecute casual copiers. The only prosecute those who illegally distribute copies for profit. MS prefers using education and technology to reduce casual copying.

"Alias" <iamalias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fud3ho$6jb$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
HeyBub wrote:
Alias wrote:
Colin Barnhorst wrote:
Read the End User License Agreement on your XP Pro retail cd and you
will find that you have the right to transfer the software to another
computer as long as you also remove it from the first computer. It
is all in the EULA.
The EULA is not law and would never stand up in court which is why
Microsh¡t hasn't sued anyone. Fuçk that, you can have one copy of XP
on two computers if you wait 120 days between installs, regardless of
whether it's OEM or not as long as it's a generic OEM.

Alias

EULA is not law, true. EULA is, however, a contract. Contracts are upheld every day, by the thousands, in courts all over the land.


Then why hasn't MS taken one single user to court for violating the EULA? Could it be that the EULA is unconscionable? Hitting F8 is not signing a contract but doing what needs to be done to use what one has paid for. I don't notice an MS rep coming over to my place to sign the contract either.

Alias

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