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No grey market: it's legal to sell on used software licenses in the EU, see Directive 2009/24/EC article 4 para 2. I buy Windows PRO licenses for about 20EUR.
by neuromanser 3y ago
No grey market: it's legal to sell on used software licenses in the EU, see Directive 2009/24/EC article 4 para 2. I buy Windows PRO licenses for about 20EUR.
Laptops sold without Windows preinstalled are still a rare sight.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>I buy Windows PRO licenses for about 20EUR. You're overpaying. Windows is free to use if you can live with the activation watermark, or I paid 2,6 Euros for a PRO license on Ebay. 20 Euros for what Windows is today, is already expensive. >Laptops sold without Windows preinstalled are still a rare sight. Go to Romania. About half of the more budget friendly laptops on shelves are sold with Free-DOS.
- neuromanser 3y agoBoth suggestions would net me in the best case way less than I stand to lose in the worst case.
- AlexeyBelov 3y agoCan you elaborate?
- BSDobelix 3y ago>it's legal to sell on used software licenses in the EU But in Germany you get sued in the first place for buying "keys with unreasonably low prices" (Lizengo). https://linustechtips.com/topic/1313408-thousands-of-criminal-cases-opened-in-germany-for-buying-windows-licenses-over-3rd-party-reseller/ https://linustechtips.com/topic/1313408-thousands-of-crimina...
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago1. Don't buy keys from Germany, buy online from anywhere else, that's the beauty of the internet 2. Germany can go pound sand, nobody care about that digital dinosaur
- BSDobelix 3y ago1. Don't buy key's AS a German 2. The people with the letter have to care. However dinosaurs could run, germany is a digital sloth.
- neuromanser 3y agoCan't speak to that as I don't buy in Germany, and I'm not buying hundreds of licenses.