Robert Snyder wrote:
>> Grasshoppa... you do not yet walk down the rice paper and make no sound:
>> http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh
>>
>> The Logan
>>
>>
> So i guess the moral of that story is if you have a dumbass it
> department that does not remove licences it will get you in the end.
>
>
> If you buy Windows for 20 machines and it is on 25 that is illegal
> pretty much common sense....
>
Er, no, that's not what happened.
According to certain licenses, passing on a machine from one person to another
without uninstalling software covered by that license is "illegal", even if
you're not reinstalling the software somewhere else. There's also a lot of
confusion about the differences between different licensing schemes, such as
between per-seat, per-system, per-user, and other licenses, and not everyone
understands those differences. That's particularly a problem with the dense
legalese that is used in composing EULAs.
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