From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 21:24:20 EDT
news to me, but not surprised..
M$ is just way too powerful and arrogant (reflecting the founders
personalities i imagine)...
it seems to me that if one PURCHASES a LICENSE to USE a product that it can
be RESOLD to another SUCKER..
and, of course, ebay being ebay they will do whatever they want sand then
ignore your protestations..
(heresay, because i have not tried to buy, sell or trade and os or recovery
CD set on ebay)
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan J. Ballard" <aballard_at_ix.netcom.com>
To: <canyonlands_at_theriver.com>; "Andrew Webber" <awebber_at_wwwebbers.com>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Support after upgrading OS?
> 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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