Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:19:44 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Don Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no flames, please. Message-ID: <423316A0.8010407@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <E1DA5jn-0006oi-00@pop-a065d14.pas.sa.earthlink.net> References: <E1DA5jn-0006oi-00@pop-a065d14.pas.sa.earthlink.net>
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>>Don Tyson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am running XandrOS Linux on an old Digital PC box. It is almost
>>>scarily Windows-like, but installs in a snap and, if you buy the
>>>full edition, comes with Crossover Office for all the Windows
>>>applications you can't wait to run. On another test box (a Dell), MS Office
>>>ran just fine under XandrOS Linux and Crossover Office.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>KDK> That's cool, but isn't it an, um, offense or, um, whatever to that
>>lon^H^Hittle
>>
>>* Umm, woops! "End User License Agreement", I see now it sez....
>>
>>
>
>Yes, you must have a licensed copy of MS Office to install it. You do
>not need a copy of the Windows OS itself.
>
>Don
>
>
Hmm, I don't see any clause in the "Office Standard Edition 2003" EULA
that would support my claim, so I publicly repent of any FUD that may
have been flung your way.
OTOH, the box that the product comes in pretty well states that you
need a Microsoft OS ("System Requirements"). I guess one could say
that since we're running 5.3, or what-not, we have something "later" :-)
It's a rather controversial issue, and the EULA's from Redmond
are continually varying in their language. Compare some older ones,
and see also things like:
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1766738,00.asp
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/17/1318212&tid=125&tid=109&tid=106
(watch out for URI wrapping)
I'm not trying to troll now, nor offend; but, based on reading some M$
"documents", as it were, one might very well wonder whether Microsoft
really agrees with your last statement or not.
Sincerely,
Kevin Kinsey
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