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In comp.os.linux.advocacy Eric-Goforth@csi.com wrote:
> In <6urcar$nsm$2@aziraphale.demon.co.uk> mark@aziraphale.demon.co.uk (Mark Baker) writes:

> | >In article <xzqn27jj4q5.fsf@uni-paderborn.de>,
> | >	Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de> writes:
> | >> software. Many of them even prohibit that a user gives away or sells
> | >> his legally acquired copy.
> | >Last time I looked at a commercial licence, and I'm pretty sure it was an MS
> | >one, it specifically did allow transferring your rights to another user.
> | And Partition Magic says you can use their software only on one single
> | computer ever. Like selling a screwdriver that you are allowed to only
> | use on a single screw.

> I guess that I'd never read my Partition Magic license that carefully, how do they 
> define a single computer?  Considering that you can move a various components of a 
> computer from one computer to another.  Sort of like the old story, this is my 
> grandfather's axe, it's had three handles and two blades, but it's my grandfathers 
> axe.
At microsoft, software is licensed "per processor".  At least that
particular entity promises to be distinctly separate for the forseeable future.

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I keep trying to tell my boss that no, Satan is a tool of Linux, 
	not the other way around.