auto scooby

Midi Tower
AMD 1.33ghz
512mb PC2100
80mg HDD
64mb GeForce in AGP slot
10/100 network card
Onboard sound
17" Monitor CRT
Keyboard
Speakers
Mouse
Win2k SP4 to date with all updates
Microsoft Office Pro
Sophos AV with all updates

MattW

With disks and licence keys?

auto scooby

Nope.

I can supply legit backup copies of discs but not licence keys.

MattW

It's worth £50 to me but to someone else (a non IT person) you may get £100, probably somewhere in between. Win2k is not the most friendly OS.

Iain Young

Isn't it illegal to sell a machine (even 2nd hand) with an OS installed and not supply the license keys. Effectively you are giving them a "copy" of the software...

auto scooby

I could give out the license keys. I will not be re-installing the OS and Office on another machine, and I am the owner of the license keys, so technically I do not think that any copyright is being breached. 1 set of license keys on 1 machine.

Iain Young

Yep. The problem comes if you keep the keys and give away the machine with the software installed.

InvisibleMan

if your not going to reinstall then no need for the keys. I think this goes for oem software too, can only sell the software that was installed in and for that hardware. Im sure all those computers on ebay with OSs are in breach of that

Iain Young

Not true. if that was the case there would be nothing to stop system builders from buying one copy of XP (for example), and installing the same copy, with the same license key, on every machine they sent out.

I'm sure they are

p.s. the likelyhood of getting sued by MS over this is rather small