The answer, whether this behaviour is legal, strongly depends on the
country and the interpretation of the basic laws.
Here in Germany: Probably illegal if you concern copyright laws but
legal if you concern the basic law (constitution). But even the
constituional court doesn't do this always.
In USA: Illegal if you concern copyright laws. (The latest ruling says,
it might even be illegal to sell software as a private person, because
you haven't bought the software, only the right to use it.) I don't know
about the US basic law.
Solution, which should be legal everywhere:
Switch the OS between the computers.
Am 03.12.2010 18:06, schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd):
Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen wrote:
This is probably a stupid question, but
how can I upgrade the Times New Roman on my XP computer, which doesn't
have some of the characters that are in the Times New Roman on my Vista
laptop?
Will just deleting and replacing it with the newer font work? Or do I get
into trouble?
It would probably work just fine, but you might upset Microsoft's
lawyers if they got to hear about it. You could probably pacify
them by buying a second copy of Vista for your XP machine which
you would immediately put in the bin :-)
** Phil.
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