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Old 6th Sep 2008, 18:07
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XP The right to distribute ?

I spent some time looking at OSs and hard-drives yesterday. Costly, for a 'retrograde' step. By chance I came by some copies of XP.

It wasn't quite as simple as that, the vendor was distributing the software with his services...to his clients. It seemed that it was based on a corporate master disc that he has been given rights to. Each copy is recorded back at MS and is kosher...so it is claimed.

Given that XP sales are still very active, I find it hard to believe that this supply could be legal. Any ideas?
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