A little uptight are we? Its friday for petes sake! I agree "whining" is a little problem here, but some people are just making fun of it all. Ill give ya that some of it is lame, but you are the worst there could possibly be! Telling other Slashdotters to shut up? Damn guy, If it pisses you off so much, logoff and go do something off yer computer! or -heaving forbid- GET LAID! and by the way, shut yerself up! My $0.02 worth... Slashdot rulz!
I work for a major system manufacturer... "syst*max" and we were recently notified of the "empire"'s new license agreement requirements for major OEM's. They are as follows (what I know of them for my job- senior tech support)
#1. Systems cannot ship with original Windoze media. We are permitted to ship a recovery disc, provided the disc will only work with that system, and we must pay ADDITIONAL fees to Micr*soft for each of said disc.
#2. Our agreement will allow us to ONLY sell Micr*soft OS on our systems, and those customers or companies wanting a pc or bunch of pcs without an OS, must show proof of ownership of licenses for a Micr*soft OS, otherwise we are not allowed to sell said systems. In fact, managment has warned us all that any employees who violate this policy (processing a system without a MS OS) will be terminated! The only exception is MS will allow us to sell a server without an OS if the customer shows proof of ownership of a NOVELL server product.
There you have it folks. The evil empire hasnt learned it's lesson. Hope I have been of some help.
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A little uptight are we? Its friday for petes sake! I agree "whining" is a little problem here, but some people are just making fun of it all. Ill give ya that some of it is lame, but you are the worst there could possibly be! Telling other Slashdotters to shut up? Damn guy, If it pisses you off so much, logoff and go do something off yer computer! or -heaving forbid- GET LAID! and by the way, shut yerself up! My $0.02 worth... Slashdot rulz!
Hi, This is my first post, but here goes.
I work for a major system manufacturer... "syst*max" and we were recently notified of the "empire"'s new license agreement requirements for major OEM's. They are as follows (what I know of them for my job- senior tech support)
#1. Systems cannot ship with original Windoze media. We are permitted to ship a recovery disc, provided the disc will only work with that system, and we must pay ADDITIONAL fees to Micr*soft for each of said disc.
#2. Our agreement will allow us to ONLY sell Micr*soft OS on our systems, and those customers or companies wanting a pc or bunch of pcs without an OS, must show proof of ownership of licenses for a Micr*soft OS, otherwise we are not allowed to sell said systems. In fact, managment has warned us all that any employees who violate this policy (processing a system without a MS OS) will be terminated! The only exception is MS will allow us to sell a server without an OS if the customer shows proof of ownership of a NOVELL server product.
There you have it folks. The evil empire hasnt learned it's lesson. Hope I have been of some help.