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Old May 25, 2012 | 11:05 pm
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Originally Posted by PTravel
I haven't looked at this for a few years, but the last time that I did, there was a split of authority as to whether Microsoft's license scheme violated First Sale Doctrine. I'm not providing an opinion either way, but I wouldn't assume that, just because a license says something, it's necessarily enforceable at law.
A very vaild point. But even if the legality on installing an OEM license is in question, nothing would oblige Microsoft to provide an activation code, and without that one could have legal, but useless software.

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