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Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 15:54 UTC, submitted by CIozzio

A Microsoft executive sent out a snotty email chastising anyone who has been encouraging people to purchase the Vista upgrade and install it without owning a valid Windows license. People discovered long ago that the Vista upgrade, which costs half of what full license costs, will install on new hardware without verification of a previous install. Microsoft's Eric Ligman points out, to those people who weren't aware, that this is just as much a violation of the license as "borrowing" an install disk from a friend.

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RE[2]: No

by 6c1452 on Fri 18th Apr 2008 23:42 UTC in reply to "RE: No"

Member since:
2007-08-29

Can anyone enlighten me to how it's done on Linux? The Mac model is really delightful for the end user, they download the same app as everybody else, and the whole process is transparent to the hardware.

On Linux, basically you download and install a 64-bit version and not everything works. ;p

After installing the 32-bit libs it's transparent for just running binaries, but you have to --force-architecture to install 32-bit packages, and some closed-source stuff won't work if the makers can't be arsed to make a 64-bit version (e.g., flash).

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RE[3]: No

by elsewhere on Sat 19th Apr 2008 05:28 in reply to "RE[2]: No"

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2005-07-13

After installing the 32-bit libs it's transparent for just running binaries, but you have to --force-architecture to install 32-bit packages

Or, use rpm, which handles installation of different architectures nicely without requiring overrides...

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