Jalapeno wrote:
In article <b98u1j$4l5$1@freenet9.carleton.ca>, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote: <snip>This issue is like the computer I pulled out of the garbage the other day. It's got Windows ME installed. "I"ve got the software, so I can run it" is a false statement. Because I don't have the master copy of the software, whoever had the computer before me can run that software on some other computer.
That's actually not true for some versions of Microsoft licenses which become dedicated to the computer on which they are loaded. It cannot be transfered to another computer. It ius true for many software licenses.
One buys a license to run the software, not the software itself.
"subject certain conditions" and it may not specify the hardware on which the software may be run. Wordperfect used to allow you to load software on an many computers (of differant types) as you wanted so long as you never had more copies running that you had licenses for
ROM code from the 1980's may need to be tested in court, to be sure. Apple may not care about a single person running ROM code in an emulator at their house but they may care about a school running emulators instead of buying Macintoshes. Schools and businesses need to excercise much more care with licensing, IMO, BIANAL.
Very true.