Re: Win xp Dual boot help and advice needed!

From: Timothy Daniels (TDaniels_at_NoSpamDot.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:46:54 -0800

"Uncle John" wrote:
> My thought was that it does not matter how many duplicates are running on
> the same PC for different purposes if they have all come off the same CD,
> Microsoft have not lost any revenue.

    MS's position is that it *is* losing revenue because you're not paying
    for a 2nd license for the 2nd installation in the same machine. Of course,
    you could also argue that MS is losing revenue by not charging $10,000
    per installation, too. But at $10,000 per installation, MS wouldn't sell
    many OSes at all, and revenue would drop. Similarly, if people really
    felt that they should pay for each bootable backup copy of their OSes,
    they wouldn't use the OS in the first place, and MS's revenue would
    drop, too. But this is all moot because people don't care about that
    feature of the EULA, and in private, MS doesn't care, either. It's all just
    bluff and bluster to bolster their fight against software piracy. In other
    words, they're afraid that if they take their finger out of the dike, the whole
    South China Sea will flood through.

*TimDaniels*