I cut off the sentence- "none of which ..  worked properly.".
Sorry.

--Bob

Bob Axtell wrote:

> Normally I am offended by pirate software.
>
> But I have bought and paid full price for Win3.0, Win3.1. Win95, WinME 
> (Best Buy gave me my money
> back on that one), Win98, WinSE, none of which. So when Ebay had two 
> valid OEM (with MS stickers)
> copies of Win2K on sale, I snapped 'em up ( ea $150 USD).
>
> If I still had the money I'd paid for bad or non-working software over 
> the years, I could have afforded another
> wife and divorce.
>
> --Bob   
>
> Russell McMahon wrote:
>
>>>> Microsoft commonly gives out "evaluation" licenses to industry 
>>>> professionals
>>>> at its conferences.  I've received a couple of "full" licenses this 
>>>> way.
>>>> They are real and genuine copies; but it is not for resale.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>> I received such a copy when I went to an MS seminar. It does indeed 
>>> state "NOT FOR RESALE" in large letters.
>>>
>>> I would be very suspicious that the license key is not on the usual 
>>> MS holographic sticker sort of thing. I think this is a pretty 
>>> likely case of TANSTAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch).
>>
>>
>>
>> I received a free copy of  Windows XP Pro at a Microsoft seminar. 
>> Normal registration procedure applied and the key was in the normal 
>> form, wasn't printed on the label and was not posted on 3,000 sites 
>> on the internet.
>>
>>
>>        RM
>>
>
>


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