Note: that should be "If you have upgraded your operating system from (say)
Windows 98 to Windows 98SE but you used a full version of Windows 98SE to do
the upgrade, and Windows 98 was not required as a qualifying product, then
you can give away or sell your Windows 98,..." not "then you can give away
or sell your Windows 98SE,..." The requirement to keep your original
product should be fairly obvious from the need to have the CD to do a
re-install, but a lot of people miss it.

If your SE cd was an upgrade you can sell it or give it away (providing you
revert your system to 98), or you can sell or give away the original and the
upgrade as a combination.

All above of course subject to any additional restrictions, such as hardware
conditions attached to some OEM licenses.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Galen" wrote in message
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Jeff Richards had this to say:


If you have upgraded your operating system from (say) Windows 98 to
Windows 98SE, using the Windows 98 copy as you qualifying product for
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I knew someone would know the specifics Me? I know you can't just go
about burning copies and giving them away without breaking some sort of
law.
That does lead me to a question...

If I have 98 and the upgrade CD to 98se where the upgrade requires the
pre-installation of 98 and thus relies on the initial product as a part of
it's licensing agreement would it be fine if I gave away one or both CDs
assuming that I didn't have either of those to products installed any
longer?

Galen

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