OEM Software... Legal or Not?
 

i have heard that it is not legal to use OEM software...

Although i do not produce and sell computers, I have built all my PC's from parts... so in a way I am an OEM...

Opinions please. :thumbsup

oem?

Yes, Oem is leagal unless your getting it on a bruned cd

Original Equipment Manufacturer....

no packaging.. just the manual and cd... Like what you get whne you buy a new computer.

its a lot cheaper also

Yeah... Premiere 7 pro 100.00 Photoshop CS 80.00.... SWEET!!! :thumbsup

Somtimes spam can be good :1orglaugh

if you goto college there are some sites where you can get big disconts also

Yeah, I have a friend that works at a college.. he gets some great deals. But that is for educational use I believe and it may be illegal to use professionally...

There's basically two things to think about; licensing and reasonable use.

If it's windows xp OEM, and it didn't come with a purchased OEM machine (say Dell, etc), you are not legally licensed and you'll never prove reasonable use. That also assumes the seller of the OEM machine was legally licensed to include the OEM copy of XP.

If it's a driver disk for a network card, and you own one, even though you didn't get the disk with the card purchase, it's going to be easy to show reasonable use. You can't use the card without drivers, etc..

Extremes, yes, but generally sound.

Actually... I have 2 OEM versions of XP Pro... Micro$oft knows... I have called for tect support.. they told me that I needed to contact the computer manufacturer to get help... Told them I put the system together.. they said I was shit out of luck for support.

I imagine the stuff you get in spams isn't legal. I got this in an email today:

http://FJGCNA.info/OE017/?affiliate_...ampaign_id=601

Is there a place where you can actually buy legal OEM software? Other than second hand?

its


WAREZ CD"S

yeah you dont get support with OEM and it should be bought with hardware. Its not illegal, just say it comes with your PC and your covered.