Richmond, I have a Vista machine if you want me to test anything. Don't hesitate to email me. (It will take me a while to find the parts and get it going, so don't wait till the last minute.)
Mike --- On Wed, 5/12/10, Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [OT] Licensing question > To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> > Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 8:29 AM > On 12/05/2010 15:08, Ian Wood > wrote: > > Did he buy an upgrade or a full install? If he just > has an upgrade then it's s definite no-no. > > > > Ian > > > > On 12 May 2010, at 12:47, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > > >> A friend of mine has just gone and bought a > Windows 7 install > >> disk and is busy installing it on his expensive, > bells-n-whistles > >> PC. He wants to give me his Vista install disk so > that I can bung it on > >> a P4 for testing. As he is upgrading to Win 7 he > doesn't feel that > >> this is a "wicking" thing to do. > >> > >> Any bright ideas about the legality of his idea? > > No; it is not an upgrade disk, and it is not an OEM that > came with the machine. > > However; he has told me that the disk will install a > functioning system that will run for > a month prior to registration, and that I could run it for > a day just to do my testing > and then blank the disk; presumably this is no worse than > running a Demo program ???? > > As I really am not screamingly interested in Vista (or > Windows in general) I am merely > looking for a way to do about 3 hours testing of my > software (a user has reported a > problem; which, if it can be reduplicated, is a general > RunRev bug) without, quite frankly, > having to pay for an install disk. However, for various > reasons, I am not overly keen on > breaking the law. > > Another friend of mine offered me the loan of her laptop > running Vista; but I really > don't want to run the risk of bu**ering up her install. > > What I need to do is this: > > Bung Vista on an old P4 1.7GHz, 512 MB RAM I have lurking > under my bed; bung RunRev > Studio 4 on it; run both the original stack and the > standalone - ONCE, to ascertain if the > problem is real or just a problem with this chap's > individual install. Wipe the disk. > > Time for all this (inc. OS install) about 120 minutes Max. > > If the problem is real, there is nothing I can do about it > and it has to be lobbed back to > RunRev so that it can go on the list of bugfixes: which I > very much hope is not the > case as they have a backlog going back for yonks. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage > your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution