**strings of ones and zeros arranged themselves into a message from Fergus Wilde on Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:58:49 +0000
which said...
**Plus the comparisons some have been making with MS look pretty weak if you
**remember that you can put SuSE on as many machines as you can get hold of
**without paying them a bean. Try that with MS.
w/ any "new" lisences for M$ products you will get only two installs
period, even if the system eats it'self... each time you install you
will have to call the registry phone number w/ your modem, it then ties
the lisence to the computers mac and posibly the proc number! If you
have had your two uses on that cd, you get to pay again or have you
comuter rendered useless. it's part of their new anti piracy campeign!
ANd this is what they are going to do on all new releases of all
software and OSes! Ballmer and co have spoken! ( zdnet had something
about this a week or two ago)
j
afterthought: Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control.