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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> > hi all, a late reply to this question, i put a machine on freecycle > admittadly old (1100)duron,40gb hd,256ram and installed 9.04. > i had 1 phone call and arranged a pickup day,but the guy did not turn > up,but did tell me he was going to load xp on it.i suppose this means > that could happen to any machine put on freecycle. > oh well,happy days ,alex the noob End of the day, given the any licenses for Linux based operating systems are written in English, you can install this on as many computers as you want, then any computer we give away with linux on is legal, start installing XP for people and you are just storing up trouble and that is just the license and single user entity issues. If people want to replace Linux with windows that is fine I guess as they are responsible for buying a legal version (full price) and installing it, End of the day there is NO come back on any of us regarding legal issues of software. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet :Saturday ** June 6th ** : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoa6vAACgkQaggq1k2FJq2kJQCggepyaG5zYpeVlJu/Lo5HOt6s qacAn0voxRZbaQG78D/dn/lD/rU4FwDE =ox1k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html