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by m-p-3
2976 days ago
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He never sold any licenses, he sold the medium and the convenience of having the installation software easily available for his customers. The OEM license attached to the hardware is still necessary to use the medium (which AFAIK is tied to the hardware, not the user), so I do not personally see any monetary loss for Microsoft. The only way Microsoft (or Dell, etc) lost money is because they charge an absurd price of money for something that is basically a DVD coaster without any license. They only have themselves to blame. |
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What he did sell was a way for refurbishers to avoid buying a refurbishing license from Microsoft if they had a computer with a Certificate of Authenticity but no recovery disc. If you do not supply the recovery disc with a refurbished machine, you do not have a valid Windows license according to Microsoft. And if you do not have a valid Windows license for the refurbished machine, Microsoft expects you to buy one for 25 United States dollars, which is the value for each counterfeit disc in this case.