Office 2003

"George" wrote in message
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From the vendor:
We specialise in supplying our own branded GENUINE Microsoft software
products to students at the local training centre. As enrolement has
finished until the Autumn, we have a limited number of the latest Office
Professional suites available for home users. snip more sales stuff

Of course the software is genuine, it is the licence to use it that is fake.

If they had a licence to sell it to students, it still wouldn't be legit to sell
them to non-students, as in they would be breaking the terms of that licence.

quote from MS
Microsoft Education Open Licence is for institutions that want:
- To copy and distribute Microsoft software covered under the agreement

Even then, the licence isn't to resell the software anyway, just copy and
distribute it to machines on the campus - for teachers, students, etc. And
students don't have to buy it, because the agreement gives them the right to
copy it to their own machines already.


BTW, a pukka Microsoft student licence is a legit way for many people to get a
cheap copy of Microsoft products. You only need a kid at infants school.

quote from MS
Students
Full or part-time student aged five or over enrolled on a course that will
deliver an academic qualification publicly recognised by the Department for
Education & Skills (DfES) or the Irish Department of Education (DOE).

Parents and guardians
Parents and guardians who have a child who is a qualifying student and wish to
buy software for their child's educational use.

Loz

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:08:28 +0000 (UTC), "loz"
wrote:


"Bagpuss" wrote in message
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The cheapskates, IIRC FAST were giving serveral thousand quid to
people for evidence leading to successful convictions.

well I have spoken to FAST in the past too.
They seem only really interested in convicting serious pirates - i.e. people who
have a whole production line set up.
Not individuals or small fry.
You won't get a penny reward for turning in the guy at the car boot sale

'tis probably not FAST I was thinking of in that case. I know one of
the anti piracy lot were giving rewards. Proabably the BSA or whatever
they are called.

"AK" wrote in message
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"Nadeem" wrote in message
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ouch.

Particularly as you can get the genuine MS Office 2003 Academic version
from
Amazon for £85 at the moment £99.99 less a £15 voucher

What £15 voucher?

It's here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...099992-6902242
until 19th July 2004 - discount code is STUDENT23544

"Nadeem" wrote in message
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"AK" wrote in message
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"Nadeem" wrote in message
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ouch.

Particularly as you can get the genuine MS Office 2003 Academic
version
from
Amazon for £85 at the moment £99.99 less a £15 voucher

What £15 voucher?

It's here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...099992-6902242
until 19th July 2004 - discount code is STUDENT23544


Cheers

"George" wrote:

Is there any license arrangement from MS that would allow a vendor to sell
CDR copies of Office 2003 with a photocopied license "sticker?"

The CD-Rs don't really mean much on their own as it's possible the
vendor could have a volume license agreement, in which case Microsoft
wouldn't provide media for every copy sold; the vendor can produce
their own discs if they choose to supply them with the machine.

The license certificate and associated key are what differentiates a
legal copy from a pirated one. Originals are usually printed with
some kind of hologram to aid authentication. If your copy wasn't
provided with one it is an illegal copy!

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iv Paul iv

Mr Cellophane wrote:

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and just for the record incase anyone needs the knowledge. MS will donate
3 software products to genuine charities (these are registered charities
or section 30 companies, and church groups etc) every other year. MS
decide what product you get you have to tell them what your charity does
and they decide the software that would best help the charity.

The 'charity' being Microsoft, since their 'chaitable' donation will
ensure user lock-in.

--

Peter

Peter Hayes wrote:
Mr Cellophane wrote:

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and just for the record incase anyone needs the knowledge. MS will donate
3 software products to genuine charities (these are registered charities
or section 30 companies, and church groups etc) every other year. MS
decide what product you get you have to tell them what your charity does
and they decide the software that would best help the charity.

The 'charity' being Microsoft, since their 'chaitable' donation will
ensure user lock-in.


Wow! So there is someone else as cynical as me :-)

Parish

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:05:04 +0100, (Peter
Hayes) wrote:

Mr Cellophane wrote:

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and just for the record incase anyone needs the knowledge. MS will donate
3 software products to genuine charities (these are registered charities
or section 30 companies, and church groups etc) every other year. MS
decide what product you get you have to tell them what your charity does
and they decide the software that would best help the charity.

The 'charity' being Microsoft, since their 'chaitable' donation will
ensure user lock-in.

And most importantly, that a few hundred quid donated to charity costs
MS very little but gives a nice reduction the tax burden.