[ale] Request for information - how linux saves $$$

[cfowler]

I found a place where many of Win9X licenses can be had.  See attached
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On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 10:47, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:14 AM
> >
> > With the win4lin server, do you have to buy seperate windows
> > licenses for each user who will use it on a terminal?
> 
> Good catch - legally speaking, for each *concurrent* user, yes you do.  You
> could have some 'guest' accounts, and just let each user fire off a session
> if/when they needed it, but obviously this wouldn't work fror anyone who
> needed top spend all or a lot of their time in Windows.
> 
> Personally, if I had 65 Windows 2000 licenses, and decided I wanted to use
> Windows 98, I would ethically conclude that the Win2K license allowed me to
> use Win98, but not both at the same time.
> 
> Of course, M$loth's lawyers wouldn't agree with me.
> 
> Win4Lin is supposedly gonna be supporting Windows 2000 in the faily near
> future (3 months?  6 months?  a year?), but I'd hesitate to suggest you wait
> this long.
> 
> Is there anyplace one can buy bulk Win9x licenses?  If you could ghet them
> for $20 ea or so, that'd be one alternative... a heck of a lot cheaper than
> the 'upgrade' to WinXP right now.
> 
> Charles
> 
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