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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote
>>> qmod wrote

>>>> Is it me (done something wrong) or has Microsoft
>>>> changed things when doing a repair installation after
>>>> replacing the motherboard/cpu combination

>>> Technically, it's not the same PC any more.

>> Wrong when its just the motherboard that is changed.

> But the motherboard is the essence of the PC.

Wrong, the cpu is if anything is.

>>> When you get a PC with OEM Windows preinstalled,
>>> the licence is only valid for that PC,

>> There is no 'licence' whatever MS claims.

> If there is no "licence", then you have no permission to use the
> software, since the licence is the only thing that grants that.

Wrong again, the law is what grants that when you buy the PC.

>> You bought a product at retail and whatever MS claims, you are
>> legally entitled to have that continue to work even if the motherboard
>> does need to be changed when it fails  or you upgrade it etc.

> But the only thing that legally entitles you to that is the licence.

Wrong, as always. Its the sale that allows you to use the OS.

> If that is invalid, then you have no entitlement.

Wrong, as always. Under Australian and NZ law, its the retail
sale that legally allows you to use that OS and the hardware.

And that is precisely what the purported 'licence' actually says
too, it clearly says that the law overrides whats in the purported
'licence' which the buyer of the PC never signed up to anyway.