[PLUG] You can't break it up??

[Longman, Bill]

> > The license only states that the software must stay with 
> the machine. It
> > does not say that the machine must stay with the software. 
> There is a big
> > difference.
> I think I get it, this means that you have to throw away the software,
> instead of installing it on another machine.  In which case, the
> donation instructions (from the M$ site) are only valid if the
> organization will be using any M$ OS on the donated machine.  So the
> organization can accept the donation without the original OS docs and
> disks, as long as the organization agrees to never run an M$ OS on the
> donated machine.
> 
> This actually sounds reasonable, from a linux advocate point of view,
> anyway.
> 
> Am I missing something in this translation?

Or, they'll be more than happy to oblige you to hop onto the upgrade
treadmill. Can't you just see George Jetson calling for Jane while Astro
sits comfortably watching?...

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WEL