I have a Snow Leopard DVD here and Installed it on my MAC
My mom has an old Leopard Mac, so I was wondering can I install it with my DVD??? or has it a number of time I can install it with
Thanks
Have at it! INstall to your hearts content.
Unlike cursed Windows :/
Can you do it? Yes
Should you do it? No
I doubt Apple cares about squeezing $29 out of you for another install for your mother. You buddy down the street, yes. Not your mother.
I've always wondered why Apple doesn't use cdkeys for their OS. Not that I'm complaining, just curious is all.
If they didn't care about your mother, they wouldn't sell a family pack.
If you got an OS X disk with a particular Mac, it probably won't work on a different Mac.
Yeah, the guy at the Apple Store mentioned that
Technically, they do (or did) want you buy another CD. It's only $29 so it's not a like cheapest version of Windows which is $199.
You can buy Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1 for $99, possibly less.
Technically..that disk is only for one license to the software. To directly answer your question about it being 'locked' to one, no it isn't. As long as it isn't one of the gray install disks that you got with your computer, you can use the disk in her Leopard Mac.
Maybe I'm ignorant on this but let me ask, does Apple care?
Apple is a hardware company, they make software for the primary purpose of selling hardware. Premium hardware I might add. I didn't think that they relied on an "honor" system for Snow Leopard installs. As long as you are installing it on Apple hardware, aren't giving it out publicly and keeping "in-house", they don't care do they?
That has been their clear philosophy with all other software that they sell (i.e. iTunes and App store)
Although I purchased a copy of Snow Leopard, I only partially read the license. I didn't see anything preventing that but it could be in there.
(see here for full license agreement)2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you have purchased a Family Pack or Upgrade license for the Apple Software, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.
Maybe I'm ignorant on this but let me ask, does Apple care?
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That has been their clear philosophy with all other software that they sell (i.e. iTunes and App store)