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Apple Offers "Family License" for Jaguar

Posted by pudge on from the but-it-will-still-take-me-all-day-to-install-it-on-five-machines dept.

DietFluffy writes "According to this article, Apple Computer will offer a $199 5-user family license for Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2). The article notes that the family license program depends on an honor system because unlike Microsoft, Apple 'does not put technical barriers in place to prevent people from installing software on more than one machine.'" It's likely that most families would buy only one license anyway, so Apple stands to lose little. Sounds like a smart move to me. (For those keeping score on today's game, that makes it Apple 2, Microsoft 0.)

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  1. frist poost by b_pretender · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First family post after /. website has been acting up all day. Maybe the /. family should invest in a family license to keep at least 5 of their servers running!

  2. Re:wow, 2-0 Apple..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    A competitive software company won't waste money making software that's any better than customers demand. MacOS9 on 21st century hardware is a pathetically brittle anachronism but users don't know any better.

    And then there's strategic incompatibility, making migration very risk if not impossible, and it's clear that short-term self-interest plus a bit of ignorance has the market regularly choosing something barely usable and rarely building the will to change, while the vendor saves money by shipping crap with impunity.