Re: EULAs and software installation

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Outliners.com Message ID: 2657

Posted by sub
2005-01-30 09:49:35

[The danger to the user is that a vendor may suddenly disappear, making it impossible for a user to transfer the software to a newer or different computer.]

There is another danger, or hassle at least; the way to restrict installation to a specific computer is to tie the installation code to information derived from the specific hardware in the computer. This means that major upgrading, i.e. motherboard change, might impede the software from re-installing with the same code.

alx

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