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| Thread ID: 29952 | 2003-02-06 22:15:00 | MS EULA and Networking | Gorela (901) | Press F1 |
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| 118914 | 2003-02-06 22:15:00 | After reading Geoff Palmers article about licence agreements (PC World, Feb '03) I took the opportunity to actually read it as I installed. If I read the Win9x EULA correctly, I can only connect five computers and/or peripherals to this PC. So if I happen to have four computers (2 with 9x, 1 with 2K), a printer, a hub and a couple of routers, this would imply that I am in breach of my licence. :O Is that right ?:| |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 118915 | 2003-02-06 22:30:00 | I would guess that the 5 computers would be ones that actually connect due to shared resources. So if your sharing a file on Win9x and more than 5 other computers get the file and you have your printer, then I would say so I wouldn't worry about it too much though, considering that Microsoft are stopping support for NT and Win98 around the middle of this year and Win95 is already unsupported... If it is I'd say my schools in violation of the Microsoft Licensing then - we have around 150 workstations running Win98 :p CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 118916 | 2003-02-06 23:30:00 | > So if I happen to have four computers (2 with 9x, 1 > with 2K), a printer, a hub and a couple of routers, > this would imply that I am in breach of my licence. Just do what 99.9% of people do and totally ignore the EULA and consign it to the trashcan. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 118917 | 2003-02-07 00:09:00 | > I would guess that the 5 computers would be ones that > actually connect due to shared resources. So if your > sharing a file on Win9x and more than 5 other > computers get the file and you have your printer, > then I would say so > > I wouldn't worry about it too much though, > considering that Microsoft are stopping support for > NT and Win98 around the middle of this year and Win95 > is already unsupported... > > If it is I'd say my schools in violation of the > Microsoft Licensing then - we have around 150 > workstations running Win98 :p > > CyberChuck My school (college) I went to also had a lot (over 150+) of computer running win 95, 98, 2000 & XP |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 118918 | 2003-02-07 00:46:00 | >If it is I'd say my schools in violation of the Microsoft Licensing then - we have around 150 workstations running Win98 >>My school (college) I went to also had a lot (over 150+) of computer running win 95, 98, 2000 & XP i would say they will have commerical licences which is a whole lot different from the licence in any home OS. i would be really suprised if their 150pc licence restricts them to a 5 pc network. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 118919 | 2003-02-07 01:19:00 | Tweak'e is correct Why would a school want to be in violation of MS licensing, when they have very generous concessions from MS anyway |
Horses Hoof (3080) | ||
| 118920 | 2003-02-07 02:09:00 | RE: The Microsoft School licensing; I do quite a bit of work for schools and have read the M$ licensing agreement for schools cover to cover. Currently all schools are covered for all windows licenses under the government/microsoft-schools agreement which started Janurary 2001 and ends December 03, this agreement entitles covers them for all windows os software they have installed and entitles them to future upgrades to that software until the end of 2003, past December 2003 the government will have to secure a new contract with M$ (at a much greater cost (i suspect)) or schools will have to uninstall the the software that they were provided with under the licensing agreement. *The licensing agreement also covers Windows XP Office XP Office XX media content Works 2000 Encarter 2002 Office Mac 2001 Visual studio 6 MSDE FrontPage 2002 Publisher 2002 Cheers Liam (On the linux box :D) |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 118921 | 2003-02-07 03:42:00 | NZ_liam, Just a quik note on the Schools Agreement. All computers need to have a valid Windows OS purchased with the computer before its OS can be upgraded. You can't just buy a computer without any Windows OS installed and then install from any CD the school has lying around. Ian |
IanJ (1454) | ||
| 118922 | 2003-02-07 03:53:00 | > NZ_liam, Just a quik note on the Schools Agreement. > All computers need to have a valid Windows OS > purchased with the computer before its OS can be > upgraded. You can't just buy a computer without any > Windows OS installed and then install from any CD > the school has lying around. > > Ian However if a school already had say Win NT 5 (2k) installed on a PC, then upgrading that PC to Win NT 5.1 (XP) would free up the existing Win NT 5 license, which would no longer be installed, and hence could be installed on another PC, and so on. (I believe that would be legal, however I haven't read the 30,000 word Eula on NT 5, so I'm not entirely sure). Oh, and I forgot to add M$ J++ 6 to that list. Cheers Liam (On the Linux box) |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 118923 | 2003-02-07 04:03:00 | If you were installing an upgrade, you would have to retain the origional licence for a given machine, as the upgrade is supplied to be applied to an existing OS. :| | wuppo (41) | ||
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