Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 29, 2002 11:13 AM
Yes it is Microsoft! They do not permit OEMs who license directly from them to distribute full install media, just the "recovery partition" or recovery CDs. The rationale being reduced piracy. It was covered in articles/columns on several sites (Infoworld, PC-World, etc.) around 5/1/2000. One example column,
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Can You Say Medialess OS Policy?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 29, 2002 11:13 AMhttp://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/05/01/ 000501opfoster.xml
Don't believe me? Google "Medialess OS Policy" yourself.
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