On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Martin Jackson wrote:
>
> 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.
>
when we get computers from the larger oems, hp, compaq, etc., they do have
the license come up on first boot.
greg
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