From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NtqTG-0007EK-Gg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:51:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 872E0E0899; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40580E0899 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so589620fga.10 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:51:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=P1meHJf8SBi9YSaM876xUfXdfyFYQ9B8KRS1nuq6Olw=; b=cgU82TbGlJ91KEk2Z4irEm31OU8fxTDw2nuUH88eNn/SiCSNBCqJXcu4uXBLXTYJ8l q7pNwGwuCSoVn00iH71LvP+JLXTNSiKI3Z1Au3vem/XQn413e8fnneqw4bjK+C7f5vLW K/nfR8QdrX5FxI665grDpSNCB/teWtQ9ViW64= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=iENoFBBnuYZo5JMeSu99ZeimzAFhM8w6CjwMUCkHk6A8v2CJXZT1l7260XkvYjVTAm w54FdPQIVDDnG5kQmqrrebdty33dXUK8+KyZBk/4MIU1jVJp9L5z+7HXNeN1B9Tl+Ntq FwwdQ7AEJbexl1bowSTHnq9LbMGnov8hvlogE= Received: by 10.204.2.202 with SMTP id 10mr2215476bkk.206.1269298284465; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm21392449bkr.18.2010.03.22.15.51.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:51:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:51:30 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r10; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201003201803.12902.info@i-vartai.lt> <34D2DC9C-3E5C-4F8D-B5CE-0570D21140D2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4BA7E968.9040409@konstantinhansen.de> In-Reply-To: <4BA7E968.9040409@konstantinhansen.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart20820842.BIBIzdDH1U"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003222251.31353.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a7270084-630c-4d15-911b-783a6a680ce5 X-Archives-Hash: 634bd8054a829e84df6bcb2ce0295221 --nextPart20820842.BIBIzdDH1U Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 22 March 2010 22:04:24 KH wrote: > Am 22.03.2010 23:01, schrieb Stroller: > > On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: > >> Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: > >>> TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows > >>> tax on > >>> all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular > >>> laptop. > >> > >> You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are > >> lucky, the vendor will give you some money back. > > > > Article in The Register about this this week. Dell may be refusing this > > now. > > > > I read in a forum that the wording of the license terms has changed in > > Vista or 7, to (basically) "return the whole system for a refund if you > > don't like these terms". > > > > Stroller. >=20 > In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who > is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only= =20 run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft. I'll try running the image of the partition which I made when I bought it o= n=20 another machine and see what gives if I get the time, but in the past I=20 remember trying something similar and I could not get it to work. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart20820842.BIBIzdDH1U Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkun9HMACgkQVTDTR3kpaLagDQCg+EPTV+SPbgMsF4+J7jNTux5H q6oAn2lBtLXKGMQWYHern9X/dW4TCg42 =ADh+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart20820842.BIBIzdDH1U--