From: Jeff Shultz 

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:13:30 -0500, Geo wrote:

> "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
> news:pan.2005.01.28.05.36.40.884418{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
>
>> copy of Win98... he asked if he could use a friends.  It took a
>> couple of tries to explain that this was piracy, and he was probably out
>> of luck trying to find someplace to buy it as well.
>
> If his machine came with W98, and that's a very likely assumption, and he
> simply can't find the CD's, then it's definitely NOT piracy, he paid he's
> allowed to play.
>
> All he needs is a bill or manual or paper license, even a magazine ad
> showing that his computer came preloaded with Win98 and he can prove to a
> court that he is legally running the OS. I've been to court over software
> licensing issues, we had paid for the software but the rep had loaded a
> copy he had sold to another company (he never paid the company who made
> the software for the copy he sold us) and the result was they HAD to honor
> the license and go after the rep for non-payment since he was authorized
> to sell copies of the software. OEM's who preload fall into that same
> category as long as you can prove your machine came preloaded.
>
> Geo.

It was an old e-Machines system, and I doubt he had anything. Cleaning it
up was fairly easy - despite >2000 hits on Ad-Aware (a new record) there
wasn't anything that couldn't be handled. Amazingly enough, no viruses or
worms.

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