[plug] Windoze XP licence precipitate

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:16, James Elliott wrote:
> You
> have, indirectly, paid $200-$300 for Windows XP and that entitles you to
> run it on ONE machine.  As long as you are not cheating and running it on
> two machines then you have not breached copyright.

Um, not quite right.

If you bought an OEM version of XP (almost certain, else they'd charge you 
circa $600* for it), you will probably find that it is licenced for use on 
the ORIGINAL machine only. So yes, ONE machine - but in the sense of ONE 
SPECIFIC MACHINE.

Redmond, redmond, uber alles...

Cheers; Leon


* I can buy a whole working gigahertz class machine, new, and plonk Linux
  on it for less than that.