[ltp] Moving windows

[Christopher Sawtell]

On Saturday 08 October 2005 17:41, Richard Neill wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. It looks as though the
> consensus is thus:
>
> 1)It might work - but may not, because Windows may complain that the
> hardware is being changed under it. There shouldn't be driver issues -
> the QEMU hardware is pretty standard. I'll give it a try anyway.
Best of luck.

> 2)It's morally legal to do this, but the technicalities are murky.
I'd put it like this: It's not morally wrong to do what you want to do, but 
strictly speaking it _is_ illegal. However, how is the BSA ever going to find 
out? Besides they'd never attack a private individual moving as opposed to 
copying a single licenced copy from one machine to another.

> 3)Yes, this is crazy, and I should stick with Linux. However the reason
> is that my friend is being migrated from WinME (ugh!!) to Tux, and it
> would be useful if she could have some means of running Windows software
> eg Publisher (yuk!)
Your friend might just bless the day you introduce her to Scribus.
http://www.scribus.org.uk/
Scribus-1.2.3 goes _beautifully_ on my R40 ThinkPad, and I have produced 
hundreds of pages using it. The next release purports to be a considerable 
step up, but I'm not going to install it until the Gentoo folk have got it 
into their Portage system. KWord is another posibility.

> without going completely cold-turkey. I don't want 
> to pay for a separate copy of Windows, 
You should be able to buy a second hand retail version of an older Windows 
quite cheaply. As long as you get the original certificate of authenticity 
and key then that is perfectly ok from both the legal and moral points of 
view.  For example there is currently a copy of Win2k going for $NZ95 on our 
trademe.co.nz auction site. That's about 40 pounds sterling. I'd be very 
surprised if you could not get a legal copy of Win2k for about the same cost 
locally to you.

> and I really don't want to copy
> the WinME installation, since that is so badly corrupted(*).
Besides which WinME is of 'flushable' quality.

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CS