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[Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>]

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 17:45, Josef Komenda wrote:
> This is interesting:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/education/?id=DonatedComputers
> 
> "If you feel it is in the best interest of your school to accept the donated
> PCs, make sure that the hardware donation includes the original operating
> system software. Keeping the operating system with the PC is not just a
> great benefit - it is a legal requirement."

Legal requirement?!? Ha!  ROTFL!

Exactly which law do they think requires this.  What if I want to
put linux/beos/bsd/atheos on it?  What if I want to put DOS on it?
What about that copy of Windows 2000 the microsoft representative
gave all of us at unc who were involved in the demo we gave him?

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.

Tanner
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