On 2/24/2011 4:21 PM, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>> On 2/12/2011 1:15 PM, Shay wrote:
>>> Want to run BB Desktop Manager once a month or so, but don't have a
>>> Windows install. Haven't had one in a while, actually, and don't know
>>> much about it anymore. Is there a cheap one I can buy somewhere or
>>> should I just pick up an old laptop?
>>>
>>> -Shay
>>
>> I assume you mean something for a BlackBerry device? Would a virtual
>> machine, like VirtualBox, run windows well enough to power it? Or did
>> you just mean a cheap computer; there are plenty of those around that
>> cost less than new smart phones.
>
> VirtualBox doesn't include Windows, and Windows is not usually cheap.
>

I don't know about everywhere else, but being a high tech college town 
with lots of turn over in hardware, I have seen Dell and other brand 
computers turn up at the thrift stores with the hologram stickers 
intact. Whether that is a legal transfer of ownership of the license, I 
hadn't actually considered. Those stickers are, in my experience, the 
only 'authenticity' that ship with the devices anymore.

And it seemed to my reading that the question included both the hardware 
to run windows and the OS to run the BB desktop manager. If it is 
against the Windows license to transfer them, my answer can still be 
read as just providing for the hardware side.

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> Car manufacturers have to continue to make parts available for a certain
> number of years (in most countries, at least) after they redesigned the
> part, or stopped making said vehicle.
>
> For example, GM will have to continue to make Hummer parts available for
> 10 years.

Yes that was exactly my point - maybe I just worded it badly as it isn't 
actually the car manufacturer making or stocking the parts, it's their 
suppliers.

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