[Novalug] OSX on AMD

donjr djr1952@hotpop.com
Fri Mar 2 19:14:54 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:19 -0500, Megan Larko wrote:
> donjr wrote:
> 
> Comments in-line:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 00:59 -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> >> Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> >>> I think you may have missed my point about the difference between Apple 
> >>> and M$. Apple actually sells you the OS. True it has a big dongle attached
> >>> to it.. M$ does some sort of we are allowing you to use the OS
> >>> thing.
> >>>   
> >> I'm not sure what you mean... do you mean like when you get Windows as
> >> an OEM version?  I don't know what the EULA says (of course), but I
> >> think I can transfer it to another machine at least ONCE (or so I've heard).
> > 
> > See part 13. of the current EULA for XP
> > <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/eula.mspx>
> >   13. SOFTWARE TRANSFER. Internal. You may move the Software to a
> >   different Workstation Computer. After the transfer, you must
> >   completely remove the Software from the former Workstation Computer.
> >   Transfer to Third Party. The initial user of the Software may make a
> >   one-time permanent transfer of this EULA and Software to another end
> >   user, provided the initial user retains no copies of the Software.
> >   This transfer must include all of the Software (including all
> >   component parts, the media and printed materials, any upgrades, this
> >   EULA, and, if applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity). The
> >   transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a consignment. Prior
> >   to the transfer, the end user receiving the Software must agree to all
> >   the EULA terms.
> > 
> > This is different then the OLDER EULA for "Windows ##...".
> 
> This is very different from earlier versions.   Goddard  Space  Flight Center used to have these 
> warehouse sales of older computer equipment.  It was a great place to get a deal.   Then it was said 
> the the Microsoft OS could no longer transfer; the hard disk had to be purged of the M$ OS.   For 
> general, non-linux people, the deal lost a large part of the appeal because people would need to buy 
> an OS for this older hw.   Frequently the then-current version of M$ OS did not run well on the 
> older boxes with less memory (and many of the people buying were not really into adding more 
> memory---this was supposed to be  the "cheap 2nd computer for exclusive use of the 8 yr old").
> 
> For those of us hobbiest, it was still cool.
> 
> megan
> > 
> > The above change really caught me off guard.
> > 

I already knew about this and it was one of the reasons this change
really caught me off guard.


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