Desktop Linux is Windows piracy aide (Silicon.com)

Posted Oct 7, 2004 20:06 UTC (Thu) by jmason (guest, #13586)
In reply to: Desktop Linux is Windows piracy aide (Silicon.com) by Los__D
Parent article: Desktop Linux is Windows piracy aide (Silicon.com)

yep, that's true. those copies of XP are locked in some way, as "OEM copies".

I found this out when I tried to install my Thinkpad's licensed copy of XP into a VMWare partition. (I don't use XP on the hardware itself, but I couldn't buy a Thinkpad without it -- grr!! -- and a VMWare instance running under linux, if/when I need it, would be useful.)