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by ekuns on Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 08:39:09 PM PDT

ALL machines in the retail market come with Windows pre-installed. You simply cannot -- in the normal retail market -- find a PC without paying for an OEM Windows license. Thus, your argument that a careful user would pay more for the full non-OEM license is absurd. There is no venue in which to do so, in part because Microsoft licensing largely prevents it.

This means that you are always free to purchase the boxed non-OEM version of Windows ("for machines without Windows" -- which machines would those be?), but to do so you are paying for TWO copies of the same software.

Can you name a single retail computer vendor who will sell you a computer with a non-OEM license? Again, I'm talking retail. There are always custom shops who will do just about anything you want, but we're talking about the consumer retail market here.



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