[GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021, Giles Orr via talk wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 19:48, Znoteer via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>>
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> # cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
> MSDMU:_ASUS_Notebook     ASUSXXXX-KKKKK-KKKK-KKKKK-KKKKK#
>
> (License string obfuscated.)  'strings' not required.

My current maching, a Dell laptop, does not have that file.

It had Windows on it when I bought it (though not running; I booted
with an install CD in the store before buying it and never ran
Windows).

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