lists@ahjg.co.uk wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:26:27 -0700, you wrote:
> So if I bought half a dozen Pro's at retail, just left them in the blister
> packs and then found one bootleg Select CD for all the actual installs,
> I'd end up both legal and with a useable configuration?
>
> This is most interesting!
>
> Tony
No, I'm sure that you'd have to purchase the correct type of license
from MS in order to legally use the corporate installer. Chances are
that their requirement for this corporate license type is hundreds of
copies, not six. I'm sure MS makes this as difficult as possible
(business as usual).
This recent trend of software manufacturers to make pirating harder is
very burdensome to legal users. We went through this whole mess back
when PC software was first born (PCs and Atari and Commodore, etc).
Consumers objected to the painful restrictions back then and forced the
vendors to stop using copy protection techniques. This is like so many
artificial 'control' systems out there... criminals are still going to
get access to the stuff but legal users are penalized!
Rob
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