Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick:
In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who
is insane enough to buy Windows ;-)
But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only
run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft.
I'll try running the image of the partition which I made when I bought it on
another machine and see what gives if I get the time, but in the past I
remember trying something similar and I could not get it to work.
I am not in that to deep. IIRC oem has no meaning in Germany. This is
part of the license agreement what you have to accept after buying the
software. Law says you have to accept it before or it is not part of the
contract.
I never tried lately but you should be able to install from every Win CD
you find and just use the code from that green sticker. There even is a
tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - like you once
hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to turn legal
again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are done
without installing everything again.
But again I don't know if it works in every constellation nor if it is
legal everywhere.
kh
