As I recall, the standard consumer license is for installation on a single machine at a time. But you shouldn't have to buy the OS every time you buy a new PC (as long as you remove the OS from the old PC and install a new one).
By the way, doesn't Apple have a not so secret plan to port OS X to Intel chips?
Napster doesn't charge subscription or access fees or pay per file fees or run ads. Right now they are not making any money. They don't run ads because that might turn what they are doing into COMMERCIAL peer-to-peer file sharing. How do they do it? Venure capital funding to finance their operations and litigation. Why do they (and the venture capitalists) do it? Because non-commercial sharing is just a really big stick to try and get the owners of copyrights to popular recorded music (which currently is mostly the members of the RIAA) to agree to a settlement that gives Napster the most money possible and access to all recorded music. Then Napster can start with subscriptions, advertising and per song download charges (depending on the commercial category of the music -- i.e., the latest number one hit costs an additional fee to download, really old stuff is free (ad supported) and stuff in the middle is subscription based). Make your own music or "share" music made by people who agree to let you do that. If Napster was so cool, more musicians would distribute all of their work through Napster. At least the record companies spend money on their bands (production, marketing, videos, royalties, etc.). And no whining about the musicians who got a bad deal (as if any of you really cared -- if you did you would take it upon yourself to send an old broke down musician some money).
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As I recall, the standard consumer license is for installation on a single machine at a time. But you shouldn't have to buy the OS every time you buy a new PC (as long as you remove the OS from the old PC and install a new one). By the way, doesn't Apple have a not so secret plan to port OS X to Intel chips?
Napster doesn't charge subscription or access fees or pay per file fees or run ads. Right now they are not making any money. They don't run ads because that might turn what they are doing into COMMERCIAL peer-to-peer file sharing. How do they do it? Venure capital funding to finance their operations and litigation. Why do they (and the venture capitalists) do it? Because non-commercial sharing is just a really big stick to try and get the owners of copyrights to popular recorded music (which currently is mostly the members of the RIAA) to agree to a settlement that gives Napster the most money possible and access to all recorded music. Then Napster can start with subscriptions, advertising and per song download charges (depending on the commercial category of the music -- i.e., the latest number one hit costs an additional fee to download, really old stuff is free (ad supported) and stuff in the middle is subscription based). Make your own music or "share" music made by people who agree to let you do that. If Napster was so cool, more musicians would distribute all of their work through Napster. At least the record companies spend money on their bands (production, marketing, videos, royalties, etc.). And no whining about the musicians who got a bad deal (as if any of you really cared -- if you did you would take it upon yourself to send an old broke down musician some money).