Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!salt.acc.com!ucsd!nprdc!malloy
From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 questions
Message-ID: <7698@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 31 May 90 14:35:22 GMT
References: <90144.130036IYO@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990May25.141829.1241@cbnewsc.att.com> <7281@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <7281@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns) writes:
|In article <1990May25.141829.1241@cbnewsc.att.com> freak@cbnewsc.att.com (c.e.malloy..iii) writes:
|>If you have two machines that you are going to run Windows 3.0 on you
|>still MUST get two upgrades. Windows 3.0 comes with only a SINGLE CPU
|>license. However, Windows 3.0 will work on both 80286 and 80368 systems.
|
|Not quite true.  It actually comes with a single CPU _OR_ single user
|license.  Quoting my license card:
|
|"However, if one individual uses the Dedicated Computer more than 80% of the
|time it is in use, then that individual also may use the SOFTWARE on a
|portable or home computer."

From reading my license card, I get the impression that you can
install Windows on any number of machines, as long as anyone using
Windows on any one of those machines has either that license card or a
substitute acceptable to Microsoft (if you buy a 6-CPU network
license, I don't see why they'd send you six sets of disks -- but you
would have six 'proof-of-license' cards) _in their possession_. 

So remember, if you're going to use your Windows on your portable,
better make sure you keep your license card with you -- you never know
when some nerdy four-eyed Microsoft agent is going to report you for
license violation.


 Sean Malloy                                   | "What are these . . . whores-
 Navy Personnel Research & Development Center  | doovers?"
 San Diego, CA 92152-6800                      | "Or-dervs. It's a Frog word
 malloy@nprdc.navy.mil                         | that means munchies."
                                               | "Oh. They could have said."