Subsidised Office 2007

Hi,

I have asked this question on another forum but no-one has any ideas.

My brother works for the National Health Service in England and because he is required to write reports, in his own time, he is entitled to a heavily subsidised copy of Office 2007.

He paid for, and was sent, a complete copy but his Vaio DVD drive would not read the disk. He was sent another copy and told to keep the original one. The second didn't work and neither did the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th at which point he gave up. Sony offered to change his drive but would not offer the use of a substitute so he refused and just stayed later at work to finish his reports.

Anyway he has now bought a copy of Office 2007 from PC World and for some strange reason it installed no problem. This though has left him with six complete copies of Office 2007 but we know very little about their legitimacy. Neither he nor I will knowingly be involved in anything remotely illegal so if anyone can advise us as to which of the following options are legal I would be most grateful.

As I see it there are three options:

1. He has one legal copy that he bought from the NHS but is this classed as a full copy that he could sell? I think not but I'm not sure.

2. He has six legal copies to do with as he pleases.

3. He has no legal copies and should dispose of them.

He has been told that he will not get a refund from the NHS which might swing the argument one way or the other for option 1.

And that's our position. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

non

 

Subsidised copies of Office are usually not for resale and can only be used while the user is still employed with his/her company. Your brother have six legit copies of Office, but he cannot sell them and can only use them while he is still employed by National Health Service.

 

Thanks Swiper.

A mixture of 2 options then!

Six legal copies only one of which he can use. Looks like its coasters for the others.

Thanks.

non