Why cant install single user Leopard on more than 1 Mac ?

[Justinerator]

... but at least morally-speaking, I tend to agree with you. It's certainly not a brand new, unique way of looking at software licensing either. Microsoft has, in the past, offered some customers a license allowing simultaneous installation of a product (like MS Office) on both a portable and a desktop Windows PC. (The theory being, it's impossible for you to sit in front of your desktop at work AND in front of your laptop someplace else at the same time. So the simultaneous install still amounts to one person using only 1 copy at a time.)

I guess the problem comes in with the fact that *someone else* might sign onto one of your computers and use the application while you were off using it elsewhere on the other installation. Then, you're suddenly violating the licensing agreement. That's probably why this type of license has traditionally been limited to being granted to large (volume) license customers in big businesses or research labs. In a large corporate setting, there's much less incentive for someone to "get on your computer" to get some work done, because they probably already have their own assigned workstation to use. (And in all likelihood, the business already purchased THAT user a license for the same software, too.) Furthermore, there's presumably an I.T. department of some kind to help enforce said licensing agreements.

this man speaks the truth!

 

[martyrk]

Or...

4. He can just install Windows on it, and keep using it as a PC that can also run Mac software.

But from my experience, I run parallels, and do not think that would be a solution, Computer runs very slow, and have issues with running it as virtual

I thought you meant before was just wiping out leopard and just installing XP as the OS only, my bad

 

[Jphillippe]

Physically, you can. Legally and morally, you can't.

what's illegal is not necessarily morally wrong. I don't consider it stealing installing a software in 2 machines when Apple oversells all of their products sold. They pay $90 dollars for a chipset and oversell it at about $300. So yep my conscience is clear I will use single copy for myself and mother's computer.

 

[RaceTripper]

what's illegal is not necessarily morally wrong. I don't consider it stealing installing a software in 2 machines when Apple oversells all of their products sold. They pay $90 dollars for a chipset and oversell it at about $300. So yep my conscience is clear I will use single copy for myself and mother's computer.

What, did someone hold a gun to your head and force you to overpay for your Apple products? Your rationalization for pirating the OS is really pretty flawed. Apple's fees for the OS are really pretty reasonable. The Leopard Family Pack costs what M$ charged for the XP Pro Upgrade alone.