30 Jul
2012
30 Jul
'12
9:02 a.m.
Rich end of AOLMsgPart_0_1ad99453-4a48-41fb-9c5f-7c3bef00fa23 ard noted:
In article <CAA3rs2022A1OMd4PHTRc40Y1bW53Jc3ZJKc3h2AwTbf4JKw71Q at mail.gmail.com>,
Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> writes:
they would find a way to focre u to upgrade to a
windows 8 machean
Bullshit.
I'm not saying they will, but based on their current logic the conversation could go
along these lines:
"OK, you have a machine that shipped with a valid OEM license for DOS 3.30. Did you
get the original media with that? No? Well, for a valid license transfer to occur you need
to get the original media. If they were destroyed, unreadable or not given to you then the
license was not validly transferred, and you would need to reacquire a license. We no
longer sell these licenses, but you may be able to find someone with validly licensed
Retail MS-DOS software for sale."
My guess is that they probably won't care unless you ask them (most companies
wouldn't care in this circumstance), but then again sometimes they do - or somebody in
legal decides they need to justify their job's existence. MS is getting very creative
with limiting the newer-not-relevant copies of Windows, though my guess is that this is to
give them an out if someone calls complaining that their copy won't activate.
30 Jul
30 Jul
10:09 a.m.
In article <8CF3C83D5BD9EA9-11DC-513D at webmail-m094.sysops.aol.com>,
Scott Quinn <saquinn624 at aol.com> writes:
In article
<CAA3rs2022A1OMd4PHTRc40Y1bW53Jc3ZJKc3h2AwTbf4JKw71Q at mail.gmail.com>,
Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> writes:
Wrong.
As long as you have the certificate of authenticity for copies of
MS-DOS, you can continue to ship product using that operating system.
Medical device manufacturers are doing this because if they change the
operating system, they have to requalify their devices which is a very
expensive process. So they continue to buy NOS copies of MS-DOS, as
long as they have the certificate of authenticity, and use those to
ship their products.
They will continue to do this as long as the cost of obtaining NOS
MS-DOS product is less than the recertification process. Given the
number of NOS copies still in the marketplace, they won't need to
upgrade the OS for some time. There is a local guy who mostly deals
in C=64 equipment that has been making quite a nice side business of
finding NOS copies of MS-DOS for some time now.
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they would find a way to focre u to upgrade to a
windows 8 machean
Bullshit.
I'm not saying they will, but based on [a guess]
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