Re: [tlug] Re: Post my article on tlug.jp?

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:26:13AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Scott Robbins writes:
> 
> 
>  > then make you buy more.  From what (very little) I understand, it seems
>  > as if this is almost what they are now doing with Office--isn't it
>  > something like you don't actually buy it, you just buy a license,
> 
> This is the way it always works in the U.S., absent a contract to the
> contrary: you own the media, just like always, and you get an end-user
> license for the software.
> 
>  > which has to be renewed in 3 years? 
> 
> If true, this would be new.  It seems likely to me that you have
> misunderstood something.  Are you sure that's not the period of access
> to Windows Update that the license is bundled with?

That sounds more likely.  I hadn't looked into it very deeply. 




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