Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> I can download XP just fine with just my campus login information 
> through the local mirror. 

I don't follow. Are you actually going out to MSDN to get the software? 
Or has the university stored it locally, after *they* agreed to the MSDN 
licenses? I'm sure Microsoft made sure *someone* agreed to the license.

> Getting the license key for XP, however, requires clicking through a 
> license agreement on the MSDN page. 

Yep.

> I am free to do just about anything 
> with that CD image...burn it, draw pictures on the burned CDs, hang them 
> from a car mirror

Hard to say. Maybe *you* are and someone in the campus administration 
would get in trouble.

 > ...but until I agree to the license, both on MSDN and
> on the installer, I am not licensed to use XP.

Right. But *if* you could use it without clicking through the 
agreements, they couldn't impose any after the fact. That's precisely 
why they make you click thru the agreements.

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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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