No it is also being interpreted as being for sale to folks who build
their own. Newegg sells them with a warning,
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* Disclaimer: Qualifying proof of purchase must be recent
receipts showing the purchase of a mother board, hard drive, RAM and
a CPU. The components can be on multiple receipts; not necessarily
all on one receipt nor on the same receipt as the qualifying Windows
XP/Office 2003 that you purchased.
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This allows OEM's to be purchased by everyday schlubs like me without
having to have or obtain a sales tax certificate from the
state. This does not allow someone to go out and buy it and then resell it.
Your using an old interpretation of OEM. It was for manufacturers to
get deep discounts on OS's that everyday schlubs like me could not
get. It has been loosened up so that builders like me can get it, but
not at as deep a discount. (I bet Dell does not pay $95.00 per copy
for their windows XP's)
By the way they did this with 98 also. I built a few systems years
ago and ordered as many 98's as I did systems. They were all OEM's
coming in plain black and white CD holders.
Stewart
At 10:50 AM 9/24/2007, you wrote:
>I could buy an OEM to go along with the system I built this past
>year. It would only be valid with that system and could not be
>transferred over to any other system.
That is for people who are building systems for resale, not for their own
use.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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