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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. Wha? by extrasolar · · Score: 3, Troll

    Why is installing software on more than one computers a bad thing?