Frankly, I ignore these kinds of considerations in an EULA. Send the software police after me. If I buy a PC that has XP on it, and later decide to switch to a VM because the old PC died, I do not have a problem importing that OS into a VM and using it. I am only using the thing I purchased on one device. Sure that violates the EULA, but believe me, I paid for the OS even though it was bundled, because the vendor paid Microsoft, and I am dead sure they did not absorb the cost, but rather passed the cost on to consumers, aka me.
If MS is now going to say to me that I can no longer use a part of what I was sold because the whole, quite out of their control, failed, then I have to cry foul. It would be like a car manufacturer telling me I could not use the seats from one Impala in another just like it, because the old car was junked. I suspect the real reason no one is ever prosecuted for this sort of thing is because MS knows it would have a hard time flying in a court of law. But this is all my own opinion. Your mileage may vary. Bob On Sep 7, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Can't really answer your questions, but I've had a similar situation in the > other direction. In order to use Vista on my Mac I had to buy the Ultimate > version. At that time only the Ultimate version came with the permission to > use on virtual machines. So, it's the same deal as with using OSX on virtual > machine, except that Apple don't have different versions of the OS, where one > version comes with permission to use on virtual machines and another doesn't. > > The price of Windows Vista Ultimate was higher than the cost of many PC > systems, that came bundled with the Home edition. > > So, the concept of there being a license that states whether you're allowed > to use it on virtual machines isn't Apple specific, but at least there's an > expensive solution for doing the same with Windows. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
