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Remember the Borland Copyright?[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Fri Feb 10, 2006 at 04:11:50 AM PDT

I like the old Borland copyright, of treat it like a book. It did not matter where it was installed, as long as it was only being used by one person at any given time it was fine.

My feelings are its wrong to penalize a person who has multiple systems, for personal use, and force them to purchase multiple licenses of applications. OS, yes, that should be licensed per system. Most applications though are run by an individual user and mostly likely not at the same time on different systems.

***SIGH***

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OS Licenses? NO, NO, NO.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#14)
by Anonymous User on Fri Feb 10, 2006 at 07:51:22 PM PDT

Absolutely NOTHING should be system licensed. System licensing of OS prevents repairing/replacing and upgrading (the OS reads it as a 'different' computer when you change anything. Can be something as big as your motherboard, or can be something like your RAM, graphics card or processor). If the OS refuses to run it takes all your files and applications hostage along with it. To see this in effect, try transferring a hard disk with WinXP installed to another computer with a different motherboard. You will get a "System hardware has changed, windows will not start, reformat" message.

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