Re: why in gods name?

> -----Original Message-----
> why in gods name can i be expected to pay 200.00 for both
> of my computers in my house for xp pro?!!!!

God <> wrote:
> God and Microsoft both agreed that you need
> a new license for each installation.

"god" had nothing to do with it.

There are a lot of people who want to "oppose the Licensing practices".
You are not alone and a lot of the people who will be responding to you
will either be against you or merely explaining what you did previously
was against the EULA that came with those products as well and now the
product activation helps to enforce the EULA and others will respond to
them saying that the EULA doesn't mean anything and still others will
respond in a flamatory manner, just letting their emotions get the best
of them.

The hard facts are that if you read the End User License Agreement you
clicked OK or CONTINUE to when you installed the product, the text does tell
you that you can install this copy of the software and activate it on only
ONE machine. I would suggest reading more up on this at Microsoft's site..

Learn more about the EULA and Windows XP Product Activation:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/.../activation.asp

Order Additional Licenses:
Home:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...obuy/addlic.asp
Pro:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...obuy/addlic.asp

As for whether or not you have a leg to stand on "fighting the man" ->
Depends on how much time, resources, etc you have. It also depends on your
own moral code and the laws where you live. In truth, you did agree to the
EULA, read it or not, when you installed the OS and especially when you
activated the product. Of course, this has always been true (Win95, Win98,
WinME, WinNT, Win2000) for the Windows OSs, that installing onto multiple
computers with only a single copy(single license) was against the EULA you
agreed to when you installed. Just that "XP's Activation" makes it
"supposedly" more difficult to get around.

I have no opinion to give either way and leave each user to their own
decision, as all the information you need exists out on the Internet, in
other places in this newsgroup and in print elsewhere. However, with that
single registration number, you will not be able to activate the other
computers without with-holding information, lying when asked direct
questions, or finding 'other means' to install Windows XP onto multiple

--
Shenan Stanley
"Just trying to help"

Shenan T. Stanley wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> why in gods name can i be expected to pay 200.00 for both
>> of my computers in my house for xp pro?!!!!


The same reason you were expected to do so for every version of Windows that
ever existed. It has /ALWAYS/ been one licence per system only now it's
enforced. If you used previous versions on more than one system you were
still in breach of the EULA.



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