Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>
> You know , the licence is usualy beried deep in the box. 99% od users
> simplu open the box , take the pcout and power it up.
>
> It is absalutly unresanable to demand that the user NOT BOOT the os. they
> should instead have a screen come up that asks you if you want to
> install/boot the packagdeed os , and that explians that if you go furtherr
> you "own" the os.
The MicroSoft EULA pops up when installing the operating system -
something done by the OEMs before users have the choice (It's one of the
first thins that comes up when you run setup.exe, I think right after
the OEM code has been entered properly). I doubt it would be difficult
to have the same program run once when the user turns the machine on the
first time...but I doubt MS will do it, because there are many of us,
and there are more of us all the time, and I don't think they want to
offer that many refunds.
Really, though, I would like to see some sort of legal action brought
about this. The license is a legal matter, and this would set a really
interesting precedent...<g>
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