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Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Sep 14, 2007 at 07:38 PM
Apparently, you can satisfy the legal requirements by including _any_ hardware. (This isn’t my area of law, and I don’t know if the law is at all clear on whether this way of satisfying its requirements is contested.) This means legal OEM software cannot be downloaded.
One observation about the download site for the mind mapping software. It includes no Microsoft software. MS has taken piracy seriously and has the means to enforce its rights).
This may answer my question about the price differential for MindGenius. If mainly corporations buy the business version license, Gael can enforce its rights against piracy and get paid $300 because the scrutiny for corporate compliance with copyright is stiffer. There might be little point in setting a high price for the home edition, as high prices may cause home users to buy pirated versions of the software.
Ken Ashworth wrote:
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>Thomas wrote:
>>Actually I have met one exception to OEM being
>>sold with
>hardware, and it was one of the Microsoft’s OEM packages of Windows XP - it is
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>>possible to buy it without any hardware here, for the purposes of operation system
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>>cross-upgrade, or operation system legalization.
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>For What It’s Worth
>I
>purchased an OEM copy of Win XP from a well known computer supply computer at a
>substanial discount, it was sold with hardware - an audio cable.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 15, 2007 at 04:18 PM
>Apparently, you can satisfy the legal requirements by including _any_ hardware.
Yes; I thought this was something that only happened in Greece (which is notorious for its legal loopholes) but obviously it’s common practice in many countries.
The biggest computer vendor herr, with about 40% of the market, sells Operating Systems upgrades this way, though not much else. If they didn’t offer it at such competitive pricing, most people would probably use pirate copies (as for most software aimed at private use in the country).
alx