[IP] Virtualization Vendor Warns Mac Users With Vista Dreams

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Date: February 10, 2007 11:02:37 PM EST
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Subject: Virtualization Vendor Warns Mac Users With Vista Dreams


Virtualization Vendor Warns Mac Users With Vista Dreams

Parallels says the licensing agreement makes it uncertain whether its
customers will hear from Microsoft's legal department in the future.

By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek

Feb 8, 2007 06:56 PM

Parallels, a maker of virtualization software, on Thursday warned
that people who run Vista on the Mac cannot be certain that they
won't violate Microsoft's end user license agreement.

Parallels is concerned with wording in the EULA that makes it
impossible, according to the company, for people to know what they
can, or can't, do with Vista running on a Mac. "We don't know what
the hell it means, and no one else knows what it means," Benjamin
Rudolph, a spokesman for the company, says of the licensing agreement.

The portion of the EULA bothering Parallels has to do with the use of
Vista with virtualization technologies. It's already known that
Microsoft only wants the higher-priced editions of the operating
system -- Business and Ultimate -- to run on virtual machine
software. But what the EULA doesn't make clear is what you can do
with Vista once it's running on a Mac, Linux, or some other OS.

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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197004648



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