>>1. Pcs for Kids broke Australian Copyright Law
>No doubt about that...
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>>2. The founder is now a fugative
>Also true. Why is another matter... not everything is as it appears on the surface.

If not this then what? Why do you take this "not everying is as it appears" approach here?

>>3. Companies are donating old computers with the OS installed without transfering the license.
>You mean they transfered the license to the new owner, otherwise the OS illegal. But, if that's true then why is cleaning them up and reinstalling the same OS back onto the same PC a license violation?

No thats not what I said. I said, "Companies are donating old computers with the OS installed without transfering the license." See number four.

>>4. No media is supplied. If you clean the drive don't you need media to reinstall?
>They were reinstalling the OS that was donated along with the PC. What's the easiest way to clean a former owner's personal files, viri, bad sectors, etc... off the drive? What would you do, clean it one file at a time? No, you'd reformat the HD and reinstall the OS that was on it. That's what they were doing.

They don't have the license or media. Companies purchase site licenses. You can't just give away a site license. Read the articles. Every one of them says the same thing. I think you know this.

Your answer to number one contradicts your answers to three and four. If they had the media and transferred the license then they would not be in violation of copyright law, right?

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>>I beleive MS to be charitable.
>Operating on Faith, eh? ;>)
>Gates generates a lot of PR over his miserly charitable contributions, but his contributions, compared to his income, is like a man making $100,000/year giving $2.45 to charity.

So. How much would he have to give for you to call him "charitable" by your standards?

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>>It might be that MS doesn't want to be assist this charity because of the unlawful practices.
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>Or, more likely, since Gates has turned down other donations in favor of his only slightly less greedy 'charity price points' program, he wanted to make an example of PCs for Kids.

What is the "Charity price points" program?

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>>I'm thinking about it. Have an old P60. Might turn it into a firewall or a browser for the kitchen to find recipies, etc. Mount a flat panel under a cabinet. Now that would be cool. Just need to find the time to mess with it.
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>It would make a great firewall, and if it has 64MB of RAM it would make a great little Desktop with KDE 1.1, but it would be too weak for KDE 2.x. Or, it would make a nice file & print server, if its HD is big enough, for a home network, using SAMBA to connect to your WinXX clients.
>JLK

I'm going to shoot for the "browser" in the kitchen idea. Need to figure out my taxes and stuff first.

Dan