Re: Support after upgrading OS?

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From: Allan J. Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 21:32:31 EDT

I find the news that I can't sell my old WFWG and MS DOS
on Ebay a shock.

I don't want to sell but since I paid for those two OS's, or
the right to use them, I don't see why I couldn't sell so long
as I remove them from my system.

Allan Ballard
TP760CSD
TP760XL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Bayles" <canyonlands_at_theriver.com>
To: "Andrew Webber" <awebber_at_wwwebbers.com>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Support after upgrading OS?

> They can only support the ones with the recovery disk for their system...
> You can buy a new OS and microsoft will support it, but IBM and Dell
> won't because it doesn't have the driver configuration that is on the
> recovery disk.
>
> It is not a Microsoft issue, but Microsoft won't allow support of even
> the recovery disk issue, once they announce they no longer support
> Windows XX because of a new version... Yet they won't let old, no longer
> supported versions be sold on eBay... which I think is damned unfair.
>
> Ray
>
>
>
> --
>
> No mean person may keep a greyhound.
>
> - Statute enacted during the reign
> of King Canute
>

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