Re:‘E-waste’ activist gets 15 months in prison for selling W...
by microcolonel on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:19PM
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Is the idea that Microsoft has a legal right to make it inconvenient or obscure enough to fix an existing licensed Windows installation, that people just don't bother and buy a new license?
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Re:‘E-waste’ activist gets 15 months in prison for selling W...
by sevensor on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:37PM
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So it would seem. From my experience with laptop "recovery" partitions, actually reinstalling windows on old hardware is a pretty iffy business, requiring a good deal of expertise. Easier to install Linux at that point.