On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:36:35AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 00:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:57:13 +0100, keith wrote in message > > <1339750633.2316.9.camel@hp-g62>: > > > > > However, there is a code sticker on the bottom of a laptop, that may > > > let you get a copy from the manufacturer. > > > > ..I bought a laptop with a wintendo install that I used to > > pick up the http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ installer, how much > > is a surplus wintendo sticker sticker worth on e.g. Ebay? > > Serious, if possible ;D. How does it work. Somebody owning such a > sticker needs to send it to Microsoft? The sticker is for the install > medias + license? I don't think so. > IIRC a friend who once bought a PC got the install medias for Vista 32, > and 64 bit, but he needed to register the install. The computer buying > price included a light version of Vista, to get the full version, there > was the need to pay again. IIRC something needed to be unlocked. Am I > suffering from delusions of lunacy or may I remember correctly? Perhaps > both ;).
Maybe this?: Just some results from 'intel microsoft vista "home basic" scandal' search on Google: http://www.technoledge.com.au/pdfs/marketing-windows7.pdf http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/microsoft-employee-caught-out-by-windows-vista-capable-logo/1288 http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/WinXP/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/2012-01/msg00016.html ... -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120616060148.GA29012@tal
