Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...

On 2024-12-23, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:

On 12/23/2024 1:36 PM, TomB wrote:

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For some reason it has always been possible to activate Windows 10
with an existing Windows 7 key. It's not exactly 'giving away', but
MS made it extremely easy to have a fully activated Windows 10 without
spending any money.
 
So there's that :-)

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Note: the Internet says you can't use your Win7 key to activate Win10.

The Internet can say whatever it likes, it's still possible. Did that
many times on the Windows job and the result was always a fully and
properly licensed Windows 10, with digital entitlement and all. The
real funny bit is that I'm upgrading those to Windows 11 now, so
that's three versions with just a single purchase.

The Windows job's fine by the way. Still using a surprising amount of
GNU/Linux, even more than ever these days. Most servers are still on
Debian and Ubuntu, a lot of PCs in our labs are also on Ubuntu, and
we're now even have around 10% of laptops on Ubuntu as well (although,
unfortunately, we have a project underway to move those back to
Windows after about 5 years).

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