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Re:E-Waste recycling innovator faces prison for trying to ex... by lisper on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:49PM (#16414762)
> Lost sales because they might have bought a new PC with Windows?

Right.

> Odds are that the PCs already came with Windows,

So? MS still gets paid.

> so maybe he installed a newer version of Windows....

No. He was making copies of the original restore disks that the original owners had discarded.

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Re:E-Waste recycling innovator faces prison for trying to ex... by Cw67NTN8F on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:02PM (#16414854)
The law is the law and no doubt they helped write it, but morally MS has no case--if the original PC already had a Win license.
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Re:E-Waste recycling innovator faces prison for trying to ex... by lisper on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:07PM (#16414892)
Yes, I completely agree.
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