Was talking with one of my senior techs yesterday and he recently picked up a notebook that came bundled with Win7. He uses ‘nix for the tasks it was needed for so he SOLD the preinstalled license back to Acer. As some may already know, they will buy back a licence if the computer is not booted and the EULA hasn’t been accepted, an inactive license. usually only about $40-$50 but it’s something. I had heard of this about 4 years ago but never really knew anyone who had done it, apparently they still do though.
I think that if it was common knowledge, it would flip a lot of common complaints upside down. People always complain they can’t get the OS they want, preinstalled in a new machine, this would allow them to sell it back before activating, and they could then go ahead and wipe it and replace with whatever they want.