Re: Product key for MSDN SBS 2003?

From: Mariette Knap [SBS MVP] (mariette_at_smallbizserver.local)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:13:12 +0200

In news:e0UfXQJVEHA.1036@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP] <jmaltz@mvps.org> wrote:

> Hi Mariette,
>
> Not the last time I checked....
>
> The MSDN license continues forever, you just get no new software.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/faq/default.aspx#licensing
>
> When a subscription expires, do the licenses terminate or are they
> still valid?
> MSDN Subscriptions have a perpetual license, so subscribers can still
> use the products received with their MSDN Subscription after their
> subscription has expired.

Great! Did not know that, I read the EULA couple of years ago and it seems
to have changed then. 

-- 
Mariėtte Knap - MVP
http://www.smallbizserver.net
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