Re: Software 'licensing' <RANT>

[themaples@worldnet.att.net (Bruce Maples)]

On 24 Feb 1997 19:47:40 GMT, cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)
wrote:

>
>In many cases, it *is* legal to install it in both places.  Last time I checked 
>MS's license agreement (which, admittedly, was a couple of years ago), you 
>could install Word in both places IF:
>
>	1> You used it primarily on one or the other; in other words,
>	   they expected you to keep the usage ratio between work and
>	   home to around 80/20 (don't ask me why)
>
>	2> There was no possibility of it being used at the same time
>	   in both places
>
That was, indeed, MS's policy up until last year (or maybe '95).  They
have now gone to a one-license-per-machine stance.  In addition, they
have banned concurrent licensing (where you could buy 500 licenses and
install on 10,000 machines, as long as only 500 licenses were in use
at one time).

Some say MS is moving toward that old mainframe standard -- annual
licensing.  I hope not.

Bruce


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