Sorry to be jumping in here so late... but here goes anyways. I would only add, or reiterate really, that we should strive to not lose sight of the forest on account of the trees. The basic idea is this: to do it by the book a person should count on spending $1,000 to $2,500 for a new Mac and a few major OS upgrades during the course of say, 60 months. That works out to around $16 to $40 per month depending on whether you are a Miller High Life or a Dom Perignon person. For that sum you get a Mercedes/Lexus quality piece of hardware along with a bombproof OS and a pretty much unimaginably great set of standard applications. I would wager that most people are spending more than that each month on coffee or cigarettes or music CD's or video rentals or fast food or myriad other non-essential items. Given the relative bargain that the Mac represents (even a better deal when you consider that reliable computing is probably third in the necessities chain behind oxygen and food) it seems rather small to be obtaining software from anything other than an authorized distribution channel. Also, cheating or skimming on multiple installations looks rather like clipping a few bucks from Mom's pocketbook, don't you think?
Of course there are a million ways to justify all sorts of rulebreaking but in the end every transgression brings us just that much closer to a Microsoft Monoculture. And that isn't what we want, is it? John ---- Charles Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Dennis B. Swaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Since I can only use ONE computer at a time, this > would let me > > install the software on others. > > No, that's not what it says at all. Read it again: > the license clearly > says you can only "install and use" the licensed > copy on one computer > at a time. The software is installed on the computer > whether it's > turned on or off, so the license is clear: if you > install the software > on computer A, no trace of it can be on computer B > at the same time. > > _Chas_ > > FL-MUG: central Florida's Macintosh User Group. > Meetings: second Thursday of the month, 6-9pm, > at the Orlando Science Center. > http://www.flmug.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
