Jeff writes:

> "I've even heard of a proposed software license
>  that expires on every third motherboard, NIC or something like that."

I've heard that too, but the three-PC copy scheme seems very generous to me.
The Microsoft EULA has always been "desktop O/S licenses can never, ever be
transferred to another machine. Desktop O/S licenses are tied to the machine
on which they were first installed and can never be transferred" (see:
www.microsoft.com/usa/presentations/ May_2002_Licensing_Briefing.ppt).

If you've been ignoring that restriction because you've found that you could,
it's difficult to know what to say, although I can understand your irritation
that Microsoft is now trying to enforce the rules that everyone agrees to
when they use their products. But it seems so blessedly unfair. See:

   http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2819063,00.html

Wirt Atmar

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