On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 02:28:24PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > IANAL, but I think that legally, when you buy some software (e.g., > > Microsoft Bob) you buy the privilige of installing it on one > > computer. As long as that computer is still running the software > > somewhere - regardless if it was given away, stolen, or whatever - > > you cannot legally install the software again on another computer. > > IANAL either, but AFAIK it is even weirder than that, in the sense > that you cannot transfer the software to a different computer event if > you can guarantee that the original one won't be running it. If you > upgrade a computer (and reformat or even scrap the old one), you have > to buy a new license. I don't know what happens if the hard disk goes > bust.
Isn't the whole deal about OEM licenses vs. shrink-wrapped boxes is that the OEM license specially says "For distribution only with a new PC" and disallows selling it in a store standalone (as it's cheaper) ? The schools could buy loads of shrink-wrapped boxes, which'll cost them more, or buy a Wintel bundle from one of the big companies, where the Windows serial number is glued on a holographic image to the actual box, strongly implying that "the box is the Windows". They choose the second, for the immediate benefit of a lower price, and since everybody knows a computer is naked without Windows. This has some interesting info too: http://www.microsoft.com/israel/education/piracy/default.asp ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
