You are doing nothing but arguing semantics. Do you buy one automobile license
and use it on several cars?
"Alias" wrote in message
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"Jone Doe" wrote

gigantic snip of whining

Windows XP operating system is not like an orange, or a banana to use one
of
the more ridiculous examples from an earlier post. It is an operating
system, an intellectual property that is not sold per se, but rented or
leased to be used in one system. If you don't like the terms of use of
the
system, don't use it. Get with Al Gore, who invented the internet after
all, and come up with a system that uses binary codes of zeros and ones to
do something useful, copyright it, and sell it.

Then why does Microsoft call it a "product"??? A banana is a product, isn't
it? One pays for a product and one can do whatever one wants to unless it's
computer software? And don't tell me they don't call their software a
product rather than a license because I just read on my legitimate copy of
XP Pro where there is an email for *product* support, not *rental* support.

No wonder MS has never taken anyone to court; they'd lose.

Alias