Windows + VM licenses

debiani386 at gmail.com debiani386 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 12:28:55 UTC 2007


On Fri June 15 2007 6:16 pm, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 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

thomas, did you know that windows now comes with a rating system? that is 
micro$oft$ way of dictating your hardware. If you get the more affordable 
hardware, you cant run as much programs on vista
--cj




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