Subject: RE: reviving old computers
From: Mike Barsalou (mbarsalou@aidea.org)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 08:36:38 AKDT
Dominic,
I followed this one of the links to the fact that it is a legal requirement
to keep the OS with the PC...however, what the article fails to grasp is
that they are speaking of how you would use the Windows license.
For example..if you bought an OEM machine with Windows, then donated the
machine, you would be required to give the OS to the company as well. You
could not install the OS that was on the OEM machine onto a different
machine.
They do not control what operating system that you can put on a PC that you
buy from a manufacturer.
I am not a lawyer either, and I can see how it would be easy to misconstrue
the message from Microsoft's website.
If you look at the first question and answer, you might be able to draw the
same conclusion as the author of that article...but I believe he is mistaken
and what I described above is correct.
Any other opinions?
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Dominic Bernardo [mailto:warthog@gci.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:26 PM
To: Mike Barsalou
Cc: 'aklug@aklug.org'
Subject: Re: reviving old computers
Since I'm not a lawyer, I can't comment on the
accuracy of this article that appeared today:
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/17546.html
~Dom
Mike Barsalou wrote:
>
> I have done some of this myself...with mixed results.
>
> For example, I approached someone that didn't have a computer with the
idea that I would give them a machine would be able to access e-mail.
Initially they were excited. Then we discussed, because the machine was old
and underpowered, that you would be using a text based mail reader.
>
> Right away the excitement left...they said that they wanted to be able to
get/send pictures with their friends as well as browse the internet.
>
> Now with a 56k modem X doesn't have to be terribly fast, but there is a
lower limit...anyone know what it is?
>
> At one point I was able to setup a very minimal X with netscape as the
browser. It ran reasonably well...probably could have used some more
memory.
>
> Why don't we try and come up with a good "standard" for the type of
machine that would be acceptable to someone who doesn't have one?
>
> At that point we can address the issues of maintenance and upkeep.
>
> Mike
>
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