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Virtualization Vendor Warns Mac Users With Vista Dreams
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:11:27 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Date: February 10, 2007 11:02:37 PM EST To: undisclosed-recipient:; Subject: Virtualization Vendor Warns Mac Users With Vista Dreams Virtualization Vendor Warns Mac Users With Vista Dreams Parallels says the licensing agreement makes it uncertain whether its customers will hear from Microsoft's legal department in the future. By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek Feb 8, 2007 06:56 PM Parallels, a maker of virtualization software, on Thursday warned that people who run Vista on the Mac cannot be certain that they won't violate Microsoft's end user license agreement. Parallels is concerned with wording in the EULA that makes it impossible, according to the company, for people to know what they can, or can't, do with Vista running on a Mac. "We don't know what the hell it means, and no one else knows what it means," Benjamin Rudolph, a spokesman for the company, says of the licensing agreement. The portion of the EULA bothering Parallels has to do with the use of Vista with virtualization technologies. It's already known that Microsoft only wants the higher-priced editions of the operating system -- Business and Ultimate -- to run on virtual machine software. But what the EULA doesn't make clear is what you can do with Vista once it's running on a Mac, Linux, or some other OS. ... http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197004648 ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://archives.listbox.com/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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