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In article <sblh.702595960@msi.umn.edu>, sblh@s24.msi.umn.edu (Susan Levy Haskell) writes...
>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 

Microsoft's license agreement states that licensees must "have a ... process
.. to assure that the number of persons using the SOFTWARE concurrently 
does not exceed the number of licenses."  The license is specific with 
regards to distributing the package from a server, and doesn't prohibit the
use of their software on a network.  

I've never seen what I consider to be "vicious" copy protection in a 
Microsoft product--backups of Excel or Word have never been a problem.