[OT] EULA and legality

[Bob Sneidar]

Frankly, I ignore these kinds of considerations in an EULA. Send the software police after me. If I buy a PC that has XP on it, and later decide to switch to a VM because the old PC died, I do not have a problem importing that OS into a VM and using it. I am only using the thing I purchased on one device. Sure that violates the EULA, but believe me, I paid for the OS even though it was bundled, because the vendor paid Microsoft, and I am dead sure they did not absorb the cost, but rather passed the cost on to consumers, aka me. 

If MS is now going to say to me that I can no longer use a part of what I was sold because the whole, quite out of their control, failed, then I have to cry foul. It would be like a car manufacturer telling me I could not use the seats from one Impala in another just like it, because the old car was junked. 

I suspect the real reason no one is ever prosecuted for this sort of thing is because MS knows it would have a hard time flying in a court of law. But this is all my own opinion. Your mileage may vary. 

Bob


On Sep 7, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:

> Can't really answer your questions, but I've had a similar situation in the other direction. In order to use Vista on my Mac I had to buy the Ultimate version. At that time only the Ultimate version came with the permission to use on virtual machines. So, it's the same deal as with using OSX on virtual machine, except that Apple don't have different versions of the OS, where one version comes with permission to use on virtual machines and another doesn't.
> 
> The price of Windows Vista Ultimate was higher than the cost of many PC systems, that came bundled with the Home edition.
> 
> So, the concept of there being a license that states whether you're allowed to use it on virtual machines isn't Apple specific, but at least there's an expensive solution for doing the same with Windows.
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