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Re: OpenSourceSchools Journal Online
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 02:28:24PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
> "Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:
>
> > IANAL, but I think that legally, when you buy some software (e.g.,
> > Microsoft Bob) you buy the privilige of installing it on one
> > computer. As long as that computer is still running the software
> > somewhere - regardless if it was given away, stolen, or whatever -
> > you cannot legally install the software again on another computer.
>
> IANAL either, but AFAIK it is even weirder than that, in the sense
> that you cannot transfer the software to a different computer event if
> you can guarantee that the original one won't be running it. If you
> upgrade a computer (and reformat or even scrap the old one), you have
> to buy a new license. I don't know what happens if the hard disk goes
> bust.
Isn't the whole deal about OEM licenses vs. shrink-wrapped boxes
is that the OEM license specially says "For distribution only with
a new PC" and disallows selling it in a store standalone (as it's
cheaper) ?
The schools could buy loads of shrink-wrapped boxes, which'll cost them
more, or buy a Wintel bundle from one of the big companies, where
the Windows serial number is glued on a holographic image to the actual
box, strongly implying that "the box is the Windows".
They choose the second, for the immediate benefit of a lower price, and
since everybody knows a computer is naked without Windows.
This has some interesting info too:
http://www.microsoft.com/israel/education/piracy/default.asp
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