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From: Justin on 28 Jul 2010 17:10 I bought another Dell D430 without an Operating system off eBay. I upgraded the RAM to 2GB. But of course I needed to install Windows. So I bought a memory panel with an XP professional COA on it for a whole $5, put that panel on the laptop and sold it! It works perfectly. So, how horrible a person am I for stealing from Microsoft? Should I be purged? Should I turn myself into the Microsoft piracy gulag? I feel so guilty. But I think I can live with it.
From: Shenan Stanley on 28 Jul 2010 17:35 Justin wrote: > I bought another Dell D430 without an Operating system off eBay. I > upgraded the RAM to 2GB. But of course I needed to install > Windows. So I bought a memory panel with an XP professional COA on > it for a whole $5, put that panel on the laptop and sold it! It > works perfectly. > So, how horrible a person am I for stealing from Microsoft? > Should I be purged? Should I turn myself into the Microsoft piracy > gulag? > I feel so guilty. But I think I can live with it. You bought a computer off eBay. That's as far as anyone should read. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 28 Jul 2010 17:45 Hope you sold it for $5.01 kos that's what it was worth. Justin wrote: > I bought another Dell D430 without an Operating system off eBay. I > upgraded the RAM to 2GB. But of course I needed to install Windows. So > I bought a memory panel with an XP professional COA on it for a whole > $5, put that panel on the laptop and sold it! It works perfectly. > So, how horrible a person am I for stealing from Microsoft? > Should I be purged? Should I turn myself into the Microsoft piracy > gulag? > I feel so guilty. But I think I can live with it.
From: Hadron on 28 Jul 2010 18:04 "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper(a)gmail.com> writes: > Justin wrote: >> I bought another Dell D430 without an Operating system off eBay. I >> upgraded the RAM to 2GB. But of course I needed to install >> Windows. So I bought a memory panel with an XP professional COA on >> it for a whole $5, put that panel on the laptop and sold it! It >> works perfectly. >> So, how horrible a person am I for stealing from Microsoft? >> Should I be purged? Should I turn myself into the Microsoft piracy >> gulag? >> I feel so guilty. But I think I can live with it. > > You bought a computer off eBay. That's as far as anyone should read. > > -- > Shenan Stanley > MS-MVP Whats wrong with that? All my Linux laptops were bought off ebay either with a Windows restore partition or nothing : and I installed debian either alone or as dual boot with a newly installed XP from the restore partition. It's a great way to get hold of something like a 5 year old thinkpad for next to nothing and which is easily powerful enough to make a solid Debian workhorse.
From: Mark Adams on 28 Jul 2010 18:35
"Justin" wrote: > I bought another Dell D430 without an Operating system off eBay. I > upgraded the RAM to 2GB. But of course I needed to install Windows. So > I bought a memory panel with an XP professional COA on it for a whole > $5, put that panel on the laptop and sold it! It works perfectly. > So, how horrible a person am I for stealing from Microsoft? > Should I be purged? Should I turn myself into the Microsoft piracy > gulag? > I feel so guilty. But I think I can live with it. > . > <yawn> Hasn't Microsoft dropped this newsgroup from their servers yet? |