Brian said:
Technically, Making more than one copy of an operating system plus
their software violates dmca and the eula. Also, you can violate the
eula by making two nortons ghost backup. It say you can make only
one backup. However, I think you should be able to make as many
backup as you want.
Right after NT4 for Alpha came out, I was one of two IT guys
at a small branch office. The local servers at the branches
were Alpha-based boxes made by Digital and running Unix.
The decision came down from the top to migrate all of the
branch office Alphas to NT4. I soon ran into tape backup
issues and dealt with Digital's techies - who at some point
talked to MicroSoft. I subsequently got a letter from MicroSoft
demanding licensing fees for every copy of NT that was on
the tapes. I passed that on to my superiors at the
main office for them to deal with and the decision immediately
came down - corporate wide - to halt the transition to NT4
and to go back to Unix where systems had already been converted.
A few months later I got a phone call from MicroSoft asking why
I hadn't replied to their letter. I explained that because of that
letter we had gone back to Unix and destroyed all backup tapes that
had NT on them. MicroSoft gave it the old college try to get that
decision reversed, but it was too late - the reversion to Unix was
already completed and the IT director was too mad to give NT4 another
try.
And you can bet your buns that I caught hell for saying anything
at all to that phone call from MicroSoft instead of passing them
on for HQ to deal with. :-D
