kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
> visions of effty <impeach_the_shrub@verizon.net> wrote

>>> There is no need to hack the OS, the system's license
>>> doesn't just disappear... but, it IS an OEM license, not
>>> full so it is for that system only.

Its more complicated than that, legally.

>> Right, right. I know, but how do you upgrade a motherboard, and
>> transfer the license? You don't. Not anymore. They tie that to
>> the machine, don't they? New motherbard = new system. No?

> It depends on who you ask. It never hurts to read the
> EULA on the system HDD. OK, it may hurt a little, but if it
> doesn't specify motherboard, many will end up taking the
> interpretation that if the rest of the system was static but only
> the board changed, it is the same system, not a _second_ system.

And legally its just a repaired system, whatever MS likes to try and claim.

Doesnt matter what the EULA says, thats the law.