OEM Software

[jesse mc]

Question, does anyone know &/or had dealings with this company. They are
offerring software at a BIG BIG! savings. I'm from the old school, "if seems
too good to be true it probably is".
jesse mc

[Sherry]

[email protected] ("jesse mc") wrote in
news:002c01c56383$ee30ac40$61b8be42@roho29:

Question, does anyone know &/or had dealings with this company. They
are offerring software at a BIG BIG! savings. I'm from the old
school, "if seems too good to be true it probably is".
jesse mc

Not familiar with them, but it's probably either old versions or
pirated.

A quick google search for "oem software" brought up the following
articles:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/03 ... are_scams/

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/findso ... ftware.htm

Sherry

[Charlie Hoffpauir]

On Sat, 28 May 2005 12:51:25 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] ("jesse
mc") wrote:

Question, does anyone know &/or had dealings with this company. They are
offerring software at a BIG BIG! savings. I'm from the old school, "if seems
too good to be true it probably is".
jesse mc

I'm not familiar with that company. OEM is a generic term (Original
Equipment Manufacturer, whicn in this case refers to the manufacturer
of the hardware) and OEM software can be legal, depending on the
license of the software company that wrote the software. Some "OEM"
software is modified so that it "works" on only particular hardware,
although this restriction is fairly rare. Most OEM software is NOT
supported by the manufacturer of the software (Example, Microsoft will
not support OEM versions of it's Word, Excel, etc., and furthermore
restricts it's use to the one computer on which it was originally
installed). It's best to make certain you know the restrictions before
buying OEM software. Also, it good to check the price against a
reliable distributor.... if the price is "much" lower, then it
probably isn't legal. I use http://www.directdeals.com to compare prices
against.... they carefully explain all the restrictions of their OEM
software, and have reasonable prices but certainly not the low low
prices you sometimes see.
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

[David Harper]

jesse mc wrote:

Question, does anyone know &/or had dealings with this company. They are
offerring software at a BIG BIG! savings. I'm from the old school, "if
seems too good to be true it probably is".
jesse mc

OEM is an acronym for "original equipment manufacturer" and refers to
software that is bundled with new PCs. The PC manufacturers (Dell, HP
and others) get this software at a significant discount from Microsoft
et al., and pass those savings onto whoever buys the PC. However, the
terms of the software licence ties this OEM software to that PC alone.
It would be illegal to sell it on to someone else.

In any case, emails offering software from Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia,
Corel and other major companies at huge discounts are *always* spam and
should be treated accordingly. The people behind these spams are
*criminals*.

Do you really want to give your credit card details to such people? Even
supposing that they do send you a CD with a pirated copy of Adobe
Photoshop, you will get no support from Adobe, nor will you have
anywhere to get redress if the software doesn't work or -- worse still
-- contains a virus which hijacks your computer.

The old school is right: it *is* too good to be true.

David Harper
Cambridge, England

[Dave Hinz]

On Sat, 28 May 2005 12:51:25 +0000 (UTC), "jesse mc" <[email protected]> wrote:

Question, does anyone know &/or had dealings with this company. They are
offerring software at a BIG BIG! savings. I'm from the old school, "if seems
too good to be true it probably is".

It is.

First, if this is from the spam I think it's from, please never ever buy
from spammers.

Secondly, by nature, OEM software is _only_ licensed for the computer it
was sold with, as a bundled product. It might work on other systems,
but when you call for support or register it, the vendor will know that
you're using something you didn't buy legally. I'd give it a miss.

Besides - depending on what you're trying to do, there's almost always
free and legal software to do the same thing. What are you trying to
do?

Dave Hinz

[Steve Hayes]

On Sat, 28 May 2005 12:51:25 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] ("jesse mc")
wrote:

Question, does anyone know &/or had dealings with this company. They are
offerring software at a BIG BIG! savings. I'm from the old school, "if seems
too good to be true it probably is".
jesse mc

What company?

--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk