#5377 HIGH Update.: Laptop activated with a key requires the same key if clean-installed

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#5377: Laptop activated with a key requires the same key if clean-installed
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 Reporter:  kimquirk  |       Owner:  jg      
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  high      |   Milestone:  Update.1
Component:  distro    |     Version:          
 Keywords:            |    Verified:  0       
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 build 650

 I activated a wp laptop with a key; then upgraded with clean install. The
 laptop is no longer activated.

 I believe this is the way the product was designed, but may cause problems
 with the country deployments for 'disaster recovery'. Today we use
 cleaninstalls all the time. Going forward we don't want to use USB
 cleaninstall, but it is the secondary method for recovery and it won't be
 a good idea if the original activation keys are not available.

 We need a discussion about this for update1 -even if we decide not to do
 anything. How bad is this problem?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5377>
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