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Originally posted by Kyle Fenton
I said this in an eairler post. But Microsoft is making it extrememly difficult to copy Windows XP to another computer. As I heard, Windows XP takes your serial number + the your personal info + your machine ID number and sends it to the Microsoft website. And it is not voluntary, and the information is sent with no notification to the user. But if you give the same CD to another friend and they copy it, than Microsoft will shut your computer down, because they will realize that it is same serial number with a different machine ID number. And you have to connect to the internet some how or the computer will shut down if it can't. According to those agreement it can only be intalled on one computer only(and one for back-up reasons only). That is so rediculus, I mean what if you have mutiple computers in your household, than you have to buy a lincience or a another CD. No other operating system does this, and they don't have nearly as much money as Microsoft. Like Apple with Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Amiga, Unix and so on.
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So Microsoft is wrong to enforce the terms of the license agreement?
All non-free software has virtually the same license agreement, Microsoft is just enforcing it. If you don't like it, don't buy it
