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Comment Making a slipstream W2K SP3 cd doesn't change eula (Score 1, Informative) 602

Try it for yourself.

1) Windows 2000 cd original.
2) Slipstream service pack 3 into it (admins do this).
3) Install it to a drive on a computer.
4) MARVEL at the fact that slipstreaming DOES NOT change the EULA and that you have the ORIGINAL W2K EULA while using sp3.

The burning question is, what are the legal implications of this discovery? Slipstreaming is a standard admin procedure. Which EULA is valid. The one you were presented with, or the one they want you to use but didn't bother changing when you slipstreamed.

I really want to know.

(Slipstreaming for those who don't know, is when you put service patches or updates into a base install so they are pre-installed and don't require you to install them over and over for every machine on a network. This is done often for Office for example where patches are streamed into an admin install and then by executing one command they can update every office install on the entire network without having to walk to each computer and doing it by hand.)

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