From: Chris Robinson 


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Yeh, that's what I meant - so if you then buy it from a vendor who is that
lax with what he/she considers enough hardware, then would you technically
own a legal copy of Windows or would you be in the wrong for buying it?

Chris 

Rich wrote:

>    The vendor may claim that an ethernet jump would qualify but that
> doesn't make it so. Rich
>
>      "David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
>      news:5ji7tu8n90grkjumg3c4pk05gkirp7laqj{at}4ax.com...On Thu, 14
>      Nov 2002 08:44:40 +0000, Chris Robinson
>       wrote in message
>      :
>
>      | Eureka! - that's what I was hoping (otherwise it's around
>      œ150 instead of
>      | œ70 for a copy).
>
>      Some vendors are very liberal with the hardware requirements
>      for
>      buying an OEM copy of Windows.  For example, the purchase of
>      a 1-foot
>      ethernet jumper cable would qualify...
>
>      --dnb
>

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Yeh, that's what I meant - so if you then buy it from a vendor who is that
lax with what he/she considers enough hardware, then would you technically
own a legal copy of Windows or would you be in the wrong for buying it?
Chris <not that I'm going to as I'm buying a full system>
Rich wrote:

  
The vendor may claim that an ethernet jump would qualify but that doesn't
make it so. Rich 
"David
N. Barnett" <d_n_b{at}swbell.net>">mailto:d_n_b{at}swbell.net">d_n_b{at}swbell.net>
wrote in message news
:5ji7tu8n90grkjumg3c4pk05gkirp7laqj{at}4ax.com...On
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:44:40 +0000, Chris Robinson
<c.robinson{at}NOSPAMtotal">mailto:c.robinson{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk">c.robinson{at}NOSPAMtotal
ise.co.uk>
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8C{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk>:
| Eureka! - that's what I was hoping (otherwise it's around £150
instead of
| £70 for a copy).
Some vendors are very liberal with the hardware requirements for
buying an OEM copy of Windows.  For example, the purchase of a
1-foot
ethernet jumper cable would qualify...
--dnb





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