Everything MS related has grey areas, but at the end of the day they don't come to everyones house and checkup on you, many people and companies abuse those grey areas. I can tell you that a HUGE number of people buy the Action Pack for personal use anyway.
"for use at your primary business location" If you are self employed and work from home then it's not for personal use anyway is it as that is your primary business location. It makes me laugh when people preach about things like this, while they are themselves almost certainly sitting there with software installed on their computer that shouldn't be. If the world were full of only law abiding honest people, we wouldn't need police, FBI, FACT, guns, security alarms etc. Just give people the information and let them do with it as they want. No need to preach, leave that to the bible bashers. Russ -----Original Message----- From: John Paul Ashenfelter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 December 2005 14:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: free mail server preferences On 12/29/05, Snake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy you are incorrect on all counts. Actually, you're not completely correct on a couple of counts to -- to be pendantic :) > There is no additonal cost other than the cost of the action pack. I > know because we have 2 subscriptions. Partner requirements vary by region. I don't know the details required for being a "level 3" partner -- but they can and do vary globally. > There is nothing stopping you using any of the software within the > pack for personal use. In fact it would be rather impossible to use > any of it for development without doing that as you have to install it. > The pack comes with 10 installs of Windows XP for your office for instance. You may be using personal to mean something different, but I'll point you to the text quoted below " 3.4 The licenses are provided for use at your primary business location only and must be used only for your internal business purposes, application development and testing. The licenses are NOT intended for employee personal use at home, for hosting customer's applications, or for installation at a customer site and may NOT be resold, transferred, or assigned to any third party." (from https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40009853) So you can use it for personal use *at work* but not at home. IANAL so I don't want to get into home office, the location of a business when you've got hosted business servers, etc. But I will say you do need to be careful about how you use any of the license packs -- MS Action Pack, MSDE, TechNet, etc. The rules vary. As an aside, the text above doesn't make it clear if the software is for "internal business purposes" (comma) and [any] app development and testing or "internal business purposes" and [internal] app development and testing. I think the lawyers would argue whichever way makes MS more money :) > Also you will note that the original post stated it was for his own > use, and the fact that he is on this list means he is a developer and > thus officially he would be using it for development anyway. That's a huge assumption -- and doesn't meet the legal definitions necessarily if MS got uppity about it. Does it cover me working on a laptop at a coffee shop developing an app for a client? Does it a staging server in our colo on the network that also hosts our production web server? Does it cover me using a VMWare instance on my laptop when I'm at a client site trying to troubleshoot a problem on a server? There's a *lot* of gray that can get you burned if you play fast and loose with licenses. Regardless about your *beliefs* about what's ok, you need to be a little careful if you're in a scenario where you have the potential to get a visit from the software license police. Course that's not all that likely for a small dev shop. > Talk about being Pedantic, sheesh. Hey -- it's all in the EULA. You read those, right? ;) -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:227861 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
