From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I8T8k-00060W-Gr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:45:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6B3iC8f008224; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:44:12 GMT Received: from geographic.net (brigadoon.geographic.net [64.79.209.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6B3eAAf003608 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:40:11 GMT Received: (qmail 22049 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2007 03:45:21 -0000 Received: from dsl-29-10.cofs.net (HELO ?192.168.0.25?) (jack@geographic.net@68.142.29.10) by brigadoon.geographic.net with ESMTPA; 11 Jul 2007 03:45:21 -0000 Message-ID: <46945112.7040808@geographic.net> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:40:02 -0400 From: C Lee Davis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070624) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3f876d8f-3ba7-4884-89b6-24e539b23278 X-Archives-Hash: 1e53ea48c71131f30cba344cd8defaa4 Daevid Vincent wrote: > Why does everyone always assume people are pirates or in search of > warez. I don't see why someone couldn't put up a copy of XP or Vista or > whatever that is unactivated, yet all installed and ready to go > (everything but the CPU is emulated in VMWare, so it could be possible, > and even the XP CPU is a generic x86 compatible, not like it's optimized > AFAIK). Then one could just plop in their key to activate it for reals > to get "WGA certifed". > Because, as far as I can tell (and IANAL), that would be illegal. I don't have a license to distribute Windows XP. -- C. Lee Davis Fantasy Geographic Society http://fantasy.geographic.net/ GCB for GURPS 4e http://fantasy.geographic.net/project/4eGURPS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list