[Gllug] Evesham/Linux for a small business

[Doug Winter]

On Thu 06 Nov Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > Not legally, of course, as MS licenses are non-transferrable (we found this
> > out when we bought another company, and realised we'd need to stump up for
> > an additional 400 Windows licenses as well). Incidentally, the same is true
> > for Cisco equipment.
> 
> Really ? I'm surprised as my, admittedly potentially incorrect,
> understanding of the current licence is that it's tightly tied to the
> hardware, hence the serial numbers being stuck to the machine.

According to the bit of paper they give you, the license is not
transferrable to different people/companies.

As to whether that bit of paper means anything legally, well it seems
the answer is 'maybe'.

doug.

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