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Re: Yes, Hebrew Microsoft Office on Linux! (Actually: VMWare!)





"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:

>
> I'm not sure... You have to have legal copy of an OS to run it in VM. And
> who cares there if you run Linux in parallel? They get money and they even
> don't have to do tech support - like in "We don't support Windows run in
> VM because everything that goes wrong is VM's fault, not ours".
>

As long as the OS code is not changed then it's allowed. If they, modify the
code of the OS, even if they don't distribute it, just patch it after
installation, then it violates the license. Ofcourse, there are some gray
areas, but that's the crux of it.