Frank Kennedy wrote on 26/8/09 at 20:34 >this used to be a queation of whether you use both machines at the same >time. Once upon a time if you had Microsoft Office installed on an iMac >and a Macbook (for exaple) it would sense (if you were networked) that >you already had Office open on one computer and refuse to open it on >the other. In theory at the time you could install on both if you only >used one at a time...
to be clear! There's a User Agreement attached to the OS. ANd a user agreement attached to each bit of software. They have nothing to do with one another. The user agreement is distinct from the enforcement process. So while it was *possible* to run MS Office on two machines at different times, that doesn't mean it's *permitted*. Just as when someone parks on a double-yellow line and doesn't get a ticket - it was *possible* but not permitted. It gets more complicated when back-ups are permitted. Computer A could be your machine for use and machine B designated a back-up. If you shut down computer A and use computer B, you can legally say you reversed the arrangement. Thus it's a legal quandary to *enforce*. Macspeech iListen used to have a clause that said you could not even install it on another machine. I wrote to them pointing out this was stupid and just annoyed people so perhaps I should check to see if they retained it for Dictate (since I only use it on one machine, I'm not violating the agreement). So I would recommend you start reading your licence agreements if you can make sense of them or at least know which bits don't make sense. As someone on firstname terms with software developers, I do think it's important not to be too cavalier about it. You don't pay them, they don't get paid. Eventually they will go away and we're one application down at that point. Mailsmith from Bare Bones has just been deprecated for 'hobby development' because it's not financially viable any more (since Mail, I suspect) so it does happen. I'm not TOO worried aboutApple in this regard, but some of us remember the 90s when each machine you bought was possibly the last of the line (or so they kept telling us). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
