Star Column: Are You Stealing Vista?
Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 15:54 UTC, submitted by CIozzio
Law and Order 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[3]: No
by elsewhere on Sat 19th Apr 2008 05:28 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: No"
elsewhere
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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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