Alan L Tyree wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:49:32 +1100
Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alan L Tyree wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:19:12 +1100
Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
OK, against my better judgment I just had a look at the Windows 98
EULA. The licence is to install it on one computer, but there are no
stated restrictions on how that installation might be done. So, my
quick opinion (with no warranties at all - see below :-)) is that it
can be installed under qemu provided that the software came with, or
was purchased for, the machine in question.
Is that the EULA that is with the product CDs or is it the current
EULA?
The EULA that is in my licenced copy of W98.
...which is not necessarily the current EULA for that product.
Also interesting that the warranties (such as they are) are limited
to 90 days in those jurisdictions which permit such limitation. Not
exactly a roaring vote of confidence in the product, is it?
None whatsoever as the warranty only covers the distribution media
itself not the software written to it after it has been installed.
There are some really interesting questions about the application of
statutory warranties under the Free Trading Acts and/or the Trade
Practices Act.
...you could also go on about "merchantable quality", but the argument
is that M$ don't sell you the software, they only sell you the
distribution media; they licence you to use the software, under their
variable terms, in return for a one time fee. I find it hard to
believe that ACCC have not looked at this very closely in relation to TPA.
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