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OEM disc

On October 21st, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:

If I understand you all correctly, you are saying that it is legal to resell the OEM disc that comes with the purchase of a new computer. In my case, all of the bundled software, including Windows, was on one disc.

How do you possibly sell it all? Further, don't the OEM discs have drivers, etc for their exact hardware? I had an older Compaq "restore" disc that would not install on my Gateway for example. So I'd have to track down a buyer with my same hardware to sell it to them? They probably would have the same disc, no?

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