Strange!
My main machine is W2K final (paid for with hard-earned money). So far so good...
I installed "old" RC3-2183 on my secondary machine because I didn't want to install the same version again because of licence/legal stuff.
I must confess I'm honest. Believe me or not, but $250 is not so much for me. If I need another copy, I just buy it. Sorry for people who cannot afford
No prob so far until I applied service pack 1 to this RC3 installation.
After applying SP1, the system reports I have 2195 licensed US version installed!
Where am I ???
It seems that SP1 upgrades to final or not?
Is this piracy or somebody's incompetence at Microsoft?
Has anybody tried this trick out there?
What are your opinions, expert guys?

It probly just updates the version number.
Also there is nothing wrong with installing one copy of Windows 2000 on a second PC at home. Man you must have a very guilty conscience.

The Win2K RC3 license expired after Win2K finel comes out.

No much for legal stuff yeh ;-). Maybe MS forgot the Story with NT 4. If u install Servicae pack 4 on a trial version it became full blown one
I guess they ****ed up a bit

Let's be logical:
1/ RC3 was supposed to die 120 days after installation, not on the very day of final release. So, RC3 is legit for 120 days whatever the date of installation.
2/ I do not remember having heard that it is not legal to apply SP1 to RC3.
3/ I no longer have RC3 on my machine because winver reports I have Windows 2000 2195, licensed to xxxx, number yyyyyyy, blah, etc.

My preliminary conclusions are:
1/ This installation seems to be legal.
2/ M$ sc***d themselves.

What do you think?