Technicality may matter or may not. Whether "piracy" is wrong is a long and never-ending debate into which we should not go here, but VOGONS does have a rule against discussing pirated software, no matter whether you have some license or not.
That everyone has an XP license is both true and untrue. Most Windows licenses out there are OEM licenses, and as such, are non-transferable to new systems according to the EULA. Nobody really cares, including Microsoft.
Personally, I'm just annoyed at the apparent stupidity of this build. 16 GB of physical memory for an OS that can not use more than 4? If this was a multi-boot machine that keeps XP as a side-OS for specific things, I could understand it. But a "dedicated XP build"? WinXP is a solid OS that has its strong points, and I still use it on a few contemporary systems, but it has no business running on hardware of that generation, even if it technically can because there were enough dinosaurs still not extinct back then to get manufacturers release working drivers.
That people keep coming up with such ridiculous builds tells me that they have too much junk on their hands, too much space in their house to store that junk, and too much free time to tinker with it. Maybe I'm just jealous. 🤣
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