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by shp0ngle 1150 days ago
LTSC is basically that, but Microsoft basically won't sell it to you if you buy single licenses.

There are legal resellers, that sell them for about 200-300 USD per license.

There are shady resellers, that sell them very cheaply, but I always suspect they are pirated.
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justsomehnguy 1150 days ago
> sell them very cheaply, but I always suspect they are pirated.

You can't buy something for $100 and sell it for $20. Well, you can, but this is not a sound business model.

It's always amusing for me when people assume they can buy a 'legal' copy/key for $5-10 'somewhere on the net'.

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e12e 1150 days ago
Could be reselling from bankrupt companies though?
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justsomehnguy 1150 days ago
No, because these licenses are named ie contract is valid only between Microsoft and the $company. Any other entity is not the subject of the licensing contract.

The only way to resell something from a bankrupt company is to buy a retail box versions of software in the first place and LTSC is not available in retail.

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hdjjhhvvhga 1149 days ago
It's a bit more complex than that. Windows licenses come in various variants with one common trait: they have very specific conditions regarding license transfer. Basically, Microsoft tries to define a very limited set of conditions that let you transfer the license. The problem is, not all of these are enforceable in all jurisdictions. One example:

> If you acquired the software from a retailer as stand-alone software, you may transfer the software to another device that belongs to you, but not more than one time every 90 days (except due to hardware failure, in which case you may transfer sooner).

It is highly probable that, if anybody cared, you could win such a case in a European court but I'm not aware if anyone bothered to try.

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e12e 1149 days ago
I suppose in the US the question is if it is indeed considered a license or a sale; wether or not the first sale doctrine applies.

I thought this had recently been ruled in favour of re-sale - but the newest i could find was on Vernor v. Autodesk, which goes the other way...

https://dunnerlaw.com/buyer-beware-the-threat-to-the-first-s...

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