[hackerspaces] Software Licensing

[Yves Quemener]

I don't know of the legality of it, but when I see a PC dumped in the
street with a XP license sticker, I used to note the serial. You never
know, it can be useful.

I am not sure of the legality of this, because when someone dumps a
computer it does not always mean that he dumps his XP license as well, but
when the sticker all-official-with-the-shiny-somehow-holographic-band is
dumped too, isn't it ok to get it ?

Anyway, having 2-3 unused XP serials can be useful for the occasional
troubleshooting of grandma's box.



tetsu yatsu wrote:
> I actually started this thread in hopes of getting some good ideas like
> this :).
>  
> Maybe there should be a hackerspaces.org <http://hackerspaces.org> wiki
> page on legitimate & cheap software licensing of most sought after
> proprietary products?  It's internationally relevant ;)
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Kive <kive at kive.me
> <mailto:kive at kive.me>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     MS nonprofit licensing is far cheaper, especially carried over five
>     years and having all upgrades included.
> 
>     -kive
> 
>     On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Constantin Hofstetter
>     <consti at consti.de <mailto:consti at consti.de>> wrote:
> 
>         For MS Products:
>         Buy a Microsoft Parnter Action package -
>         its around 300$ a year and includes 10+ licences
>         of Windows, 10+ licences of Office and a couple of
>         server licences...
> 
>         https://partner.microsoft.com/40016455
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