On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:48:45 +1100 Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Peter Hardy wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:48 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > > > >>I need something able to run Windows XP Pro (that's the only current > >>Windows licence I have). > > > > > > As an aside, I've been wondering about the legalities of this. > > > > My laptop dual-boots Windows XP and Linux. I'm planning on using the > > same licence for the native XP install, and the virtual one under > > Linux. Gut feeling tells me that should be perfectly OK. Although > > I'm not sure if I'll have any sort of activation issues, or MS > > lawyers knocking on my door. > > I think if you read the EULA very carefully that you will be in > breach of the licence, and if you have activated it as native then > you almost certainly won't be able to activate it again because the > reported config will be different; but then IANAME (I am not a > Microsoft expert) Neither am I. And I have not looked at the EULA for a long time, but the last time I did it seemed to be tied to the machine rather than to the way that it was invoked. I really hope that I don't need to look at it for another very, very, very long time. > > > > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people > <http://lannetlinux.com> When you want a computer system that works, > just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, > choose Microsoft. -- > Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian > states. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 428 148 071 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
