Parallels/Boot Camp questions

[Chad Leigh]

On Dec 3, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Chad Leigh wrote:

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> On Dec 3, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
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>> On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Chad Leigh wrote:
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>>> On Dec 3, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:
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>>>> On 3 Dec 2006, at 19:23, David Zhou wrote:
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>>>>> But AFAIK, the Windows license allows VMs, so it's possible to  
>>>>> active twice with the same copy of XP.
>>>>
>>>> Didn't Vista remove this? For all but Premium?
>>>
>>> Not if you read the license literally.  It only applies to using  
>>> a VM on the licensed device and OS X / Mac is not a licensed  
>>> device until WinV is installed on it and you cannot install on it  
>>> unless maybe using bootcamp.  On explanation I read was to stop  
>>> the same copy of windows from being the VM host and the OS  
>>> running in the VM.
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>> That's what I thought to. Unfortunately that's not the case:
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>> http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61969665,00.htm
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> Then they have to re-write the license as the license does not say  
> that.
>
> Chad

In other words, the binding terms are the license terms as they exist  
when you purchase the SW, not the interpretation of some MS drone on  
ZDNET or Mr Paul T.  As long as they key it to running in a VM on the  
licensed device, as long as there is not a WinV installed on the  
machine itself in a runnable form, the Mac *cannot* be the licensed  
device as far a I can see and hence the prohibition wouldn't apply.

IANALAIDPOOTV

Chad