Windows + VM licenses

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Jun 15 18:16:46 UTC 2007


Thomas Kaiser wrote:

> Ed is running it on a VM in Linux, so I think it is OK.
> Micro$oft can not dictate on which hardware you like to run the stuff, you 
> bought it!

No, they most definitely can.  All you did is license it, and
proprietary software licenses tend not to be so generous.  OEM copies
can not be run inside VMs (only directly on the original hardware),
regardless of what the MS guy told Ed.

Matt Flaschen




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