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Re: Microsoft Bashing (Was: Re: News from Microsoft)

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From: Susan Levy Haskell
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).


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From: sblh@s24.msi.umn.edu (Susan Levy Haskell)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Bashing (Was: Re: News from Microsoft)
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Date: 6 Apr 92 21:32:40 GMT
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