[CS-FSLUG] OT? A sneaky change in Windows licensing terms

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Shouldn't be a problem for me, I'm happy with my Kubuntu Edgy.

On 10/13/06, Bob K Mertz <bob at bibleboy.org> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty certain that this licensing change is in response to the
> popularity that VMware has been gaining.  Microsoft is facing a problem
> where they are losing the monopoly of the desktop and things like VMware
> and other virutalization packages are making it easier for people to not
> use Windows as their only operating system.  If the end user is able to
> start playing with Linux without completely getting rid of Windows,
> third party developers will start seeing the need to cross-develop
> applications for Windows and Linux -- thus starting to eliminate the
> "need" for Windows.
>
> Just my two cents :)
>
>
> Frank Bax wrote:
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156
> >
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/index.php?p=116
> >
> > Previously, a retail license could be removed from one computer and
> > reinstalled on another with no limits. Now, you get to reinstall one time
> > and one time only.
> >
> > With a retail version of Windows XP, there are no restrictions on the
> > number of times you can transfer the software from one computer to another
> > in your household or office. That's about to change for the worse in Vista,
> > with only one lifetime transfer allowed. It makes the outrageous price
> > difference between retail and OEM copies even more difficult to justify.
> >
> > You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a
> > virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.
> >
> >
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