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Originally Posted by up2no6ood
Thousands of people profit off of microsofts work. Its called maintenance and repair. He is charging to install an upgrade, and has every right to do so, but I can understand the ruffled feathers about him using your roms for profit. The only thing I can recommend is; Charge a nominal fee for your rom, or require members to pay for a subscription to access rom specific content.
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Big difference between mainenance and repair (a service) and providing a ROM (an object). The tools here are specifically excluded from commercial use, so if he has a way to build that ROM without using the tools and data here or install it without using the tools here, more power to him. The truth is, it's pretty easy to tell the signature of each of the various tools here, so prosecution is fairly easy. As far as Microsoft and him selling a ROM, that may well be illegal for OS versions not available and certainly illegal for any software contained therein marked as not for sale/commercial use.