Re: [seul-edu] They changed the site!

[Jim Thomas <jthomas@bittware.com>]

Cameron Miller wrote:
>
> They are allowed to change their web pages.
> In reading the current page:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/education/?id=DonatedComputers
>
> The Q and A table is still misleading.

Yes.  The table still indicates that it's illegal to remove the
original
OS:

To wit:
It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems
remain
with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or
individual
donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the
operating
system that was installed on the PC.

They're still mangling the real licensing requirement which is that
the
OS cannot be transferred to another machine.  They should say "the
OS
should remain with the machinefor the life of the OS," not "for the
life
of the machine."  (Or perhaps they are arguing that deleting and M$
OS
and installing Linux is the computer equivalent of being "born
again?"
Not likely ;-)

The second sentence is just flat out false.

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