[wellylug] OT: WinXP Home CD needed

[Pete Black]

Michael, can you just stop posting about this please? youve got your CD, 
and i'm sure we're all as familiar with MS EULAs as we ever want to be.

Really, what did you expect, first with the deliberately off-topic post, 
and now this?

You might live in an 'MS world' but please refrain from bringing this 
crap nto my quite happily MS-free world via this list.

-Pete






>For anyone that wants to know, it isn't breaking the EULA as long as the
>person has proof of purchase and a valid CD key (I checked with Microsoft
>first who offered to send me a CD if I paid $50). I don't advocate software
>piracy. Pirating software is not only illegal, it costs MS money, but it
>costs me money in software sales and it costs the NZ economy money in lost
>sales.
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>And the CD is for me, not a client. Also, if you ever read this, I have just
>checked my mail for this list back to the beginning of April and only a
>couple of messages had MS-related stuff in them and none were work-related.
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>Michael
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Chris Hodgetts
>Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:50 p.m.
>To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] OT: WinXP Home CD needed
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>If someone on this list gave you a XP Home CD, would that not break the EULA
>of the person who has that disk?
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>I would hope Michael that you are not advocating software piracy to your
>clients, that would not be a good look.
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>This was *very* off topic, as are most of your posts...
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>Personally I feel that most of the people on this list don't mind helping
>others when it's related to home use, or even the occasional work related
>query, but in the time that I have been on the list, all your posts have
>been just about work / client related list, and they have all been your
>clients.
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>If you cant do the work, you should advise your clients so they could look
>somewhere else for advise - as opposed to getting free advise from the
>generosity of others on this list.
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>Many others on this list are contractors as well, and don't continually ask
>for work related questions to do their job......
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>Just like your Memory Test question to the IRC channel.
>GOOGLE would have given you the same answer that I gave you.
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>Don't bother replying to me, as all your mail is now being delivered
>/dev/null
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>On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 22:35 +1200, jumbophut wrote:
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>>On 5/19/05, Michael Dittmer wrote:
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>>>/me wonders why any of those would help me
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>>>/me not need a MSUG
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>>>/me just need a WinXP Home CD
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>>I was trying hard to be helpful, Michael.
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>>Out of interest, did you actually look at those first two links?  They 
>>provide contact details for two groups of people interested in MS 
>>products in the Wellington region.  I think it's a fair bet that 
>>someone in one of those groups might have a CD like the one you are 
>>after.
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>>Plus, judging from your previous posts, you seem to do a fair bit of 
>>MS-related work, so making the contacts might be good for your 
>>business.
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