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Article #1317Re: Microsoft Bashing (Was: Re: News from Microsoft)
From: Susan Levy Haskell
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 21:32
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 21:32
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stcroix@ultra.com (Bill St. Croix) writes: >In article <#+r~hg+?`@twinsun.com> junio@twinsun.com (Junio Hamano) writes: >> >>I'm confused. Are you suggesting that even a copy obtained under >>multiple-user licence has only one install disk and Microsoft >>insists personalizing it? ... >It is my understanding (from numerous sources) that there is no such >animal as a "site license" from Microsoft. I personally have never seen >multiple-user copies of any Microsoft software (the exception may be MS >Mail, but I don't recall). Anyway, Word and Excel are only purchasable >in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mail in one package...and still >single user) or individually. If this is not the case, please let me know, >since this would be useful information to me. At least for educational use, Microsoft has "multi-packs" available. They supply 1 manual set, 1 copy of the media, and n (in my case, ten) "rights- to-use". I have two ten-packs of Microsoft Word (for sixteen Macs--it was cheaper to over-license than to buy sixteen copies). -- Susan B. Levy Haskell ||| sblh@msi.umn.edu Macintosh & Network Administrator ||| (612) 624-8862 Minnesota Supercomputer Institute ||| <insert usual disclaimer here> University of Minnesota ||| No flames please, I just quit smoking.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!sblh From: sblh@s24.msi.umn.edu (Susan Levy Haskell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Microsoft Bashing (Was: Re: News from Microsoft) Message-ID: <sblh.702595960@msi.umn.edu> Date: 6 Apr 92 21:32:40 GMT References: <Mar.31.10.14.44.1992.21559@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <1992Mar31.182908.15866@a.cs.okstate.edu> <1992Mar31.213207.12639@ultra.com> <Mar.31.18.09.59.1992.11842@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <1992Apr1.175815.8455@ultra.com> <#+r~hg+?`@twinsun.com> <1992Apr2.003622.25637@ Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: s24.msi.umn.edu