Re: Moral/legal question

CW wrote:

The OP wrote:
>>> I would like to now purchase a copy for home for off-hours
>>> consultancy work. My system is a W98 system that works fine and for
>>> reasons not relevant enough to go into here, I do not want to
>>> upgrade it to WinXP at present.
>>> Can I purchase a copy of ACAD 2004 and install instead a pirated
>>> copy of Acad 2002? I have tried obtaining a copy of 2002 but all the
>>> AutoDesk distributors in my country say it is not available. My copy
>>> of 2004 would then just sit on the shelf and would not be used on
>>> ANY computer. What is the legal or moral position of what I am
>>> proposing?

Isn't it possible to install the same version on two computers unless you
make 100% certain that only one of them is being used at the same time? If I
understood the AutoCad Licencing Model correctly - and the meaning of the
Licence Transfer Application that comes with ACAD 2002 - it shouldn't be a
problem: You export the licence from your PC at work to a disk, import it to
your machine at home and so on. That's how you could use one licence on two
or more machines as long as you make absolutely sure that only one licence
is being used at the same time.

If that isn't possible, you'd be illegal with only one licence


> We had 21 computers running Win 98 and Autocad 2002. Crashes were
> common. Minimum of four per day usually more. I kept mine going by
> rebooting three times a day. Upgraded one PC to Win 2000. Solid as a
> rock. Upgraded the rest to XP. Not as good as 2000 but much better
> than 98. Some have said that they got it to run fine on 98 but many
> people have had the same experience as we did.

100 % ACK. ACAD on Win98 sucks - personal experience: Win98 sucks altogether
regardless which applications one uses on it. Use NT or 2000 instead and
you'll be working as happily as a pig in sh...


Kind regards,
Olaf

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