Comments on: Common-sense software licensing… http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/02/14/common-sense-software-licensing/ kthxbai Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Gordon http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2007/02/14/common-sense-software-licensing/#comment-13339 Jeff Gordon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=3304#comment-13339 It's nice that a company is explicitly stating with other companies have been doing for years. The truth is that while software licensing is still limited in some fashions, most licenses purchased by end users are done with a single-concurrent use model. This means that yes, you as an individual can have two+ copies of any product INSTALLED on any/all of your computers at the same time. But you can only use one at any given moment in time. How many instances of Word do you need running on how many different devices you have? :) ~Jeff <div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13339','Jeff Gordon'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13339','Jeff Gordon','It\'s nice that a company is explicitly stating with other companies have been doing for years. The truth is that while software licensing is still limited in some fashions, most licenses purchased by end users are done with a single-concurrent use model. This means that yes, you as an individual can have two+ copies of any product INSTALLED on any\/all of your computers at the same time. But you can only use one at any given moment in time.\n\nHow many instances of Word do you need running on how many different devices you have? :)\n\n~Jeff\n'); return false;">Quote</a></div> It’s nice that a company is explicitly stating with other companies have been doing for years. The truth is that while software licensing is still limited in some fashions, most licenses purchased by end users are done with a single-concurrent use model. This means that yes, you as an individual can have two+ copies of any product INSTALLED on any/all of your computers at the same time. But you can only use one at any given moment in time.

How many instances of Word do you need running on how many different devices you have? :)

~Jeff

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