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Re: More Microsoft Licensing fun!
« Reply #60 on: March 02, 2006, 09:31:43 pm »
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Re: More Microsoft Licensing fun!
« Reply #61 on: March 02, 2006, 09:56:16 pm »
The point isn't that a harddrive is critical to being a computer, it's that a harddrive is critical to the OS.  If the harddrive is replaced, the OS has to be replaced.  Otherwise, the OS shouldn't have to be. 

That's the issue.  Not whether or not you can get by without a harddrive in hypothetical situations. 
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Re: More Microsoft Licensing fun!
« Reply #62 on: March 02, 2006, 10:16:20 pm »
Quote from: iago on March 02, 2006, 09:56:16 pm
The point isn't that a harddrive is critical to being a computer, it's that a harddrive is critical to the OS.  If the harddrive is replaced, the OS has to be replaced.  Otherwise, the OS shouldn't have to be. 

That's the issue.  Not whether or not you can get by without a harddrive in hypothetical situations. 

Exactly.  Thank you. :)
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Re: More Microsoft Licensing fun!
« Reply #63 on: March 03, 2006, 02:21:25 am »
I'd change that to, "A hard drive is critical to the Windows OS" or "A storage medium is critical to an OS".
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Re: More Microsoft Licensing fun!
« Reply #64 on: March 03, 2006, 10:10:21 am »
Quote from: Ergot on March 03, 2006, 02:21:25 am
I'd change that to, "A hard drive is critical to the Windows OS" or "A storage medium is critical to an OS".

Windows can install to a flash drive just as easily as linux can....
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Re: More Microsoft Licensing fun!
« Reply #65 on: March 03, 2006, 10:40:30 am »
shh, let them think that. They need something to hold on to.
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Re: More Microsoft Licensing fun!
« Reply #66 on: March 03, 2006, 10:41:15 am »
Ok, that doesn't matter! 
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Re: More Microsoft Licensing fun!
« Reply #67 on: March 03, 2006, 06:42:23 pm »
It wouldn't really change anything. If all computers were generally shipped with a flash drive as the main storage medium for the OS, that means if the flash drive was removed, the OS would be removed, essentially requiring a new key for the same computer. I think it's just that in this particular case, its hard drives.

Am I understanding this incorrectly ???
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