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newdles Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Corporate edition works this way - install it, it's activated. You don't have to do it online and because it doesn't require true activation.Corporate liscenses work in large volume liscensing. It's for businesses of course to distribute to many computers. Generally you have to buy a lot of liscenses for the Corporate version though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marsden Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 It is legal for him to load his machines at work. His company paid for the VLK (Volume License Key). It may or may not be legal for him to bring it home and load all his machines at home. (Depends on his license at work)It is illegal as hell for him to give you a copy of that Corporate disk for you to use if: the license agreement states that the disk is for work use only (X amount of machines in your office), then he has violated the license agreement and you would be also in violation.If the license says good for 100 installs and your boss's machines are installs 109, 110, 111, 112, and your installs go like 113, 114, 115, 116... your 16 installs past the license agreement and in violation. You would need to purchase more CALs.On the other hand if your corporate license allows for 100 installs and your boss has only used 85 installs at work, then it might be considered acceptable.Basically MS ships you a single disk and VLK key instead of 100 disks with seperate keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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prathapml Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Possibly both would get in trouble.... Its like most other vices you see in people - both the victim and the provider are at fault.Volume Licenses are normally also viewed in terms of open-ended site licenses that are limited by the number of machines specified. So its again not within the terms of agreement to offer anybody a "take-this-home". VLKs (or corporate editions, as they are more commonly known) also normally are offered only to businesses that have a few thousands (or hundreds) of PCs in possession. From that angle, your boss is a big guy I suppose? XP Pro (which is what the corp. edition is) supposedly has terms in its license that allows you to have it installed on a desktop and a laptop, but only use one of the two at a time (I don't know if these terms were changed with the release of SP2). In that case, you can legally take that copy your boss is offering you and install it on your laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsden Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 The two installs only applied to MS Office suites... not any MS operating systems... read the EULAs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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