[rescue] Ultra 5 OS

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Thu Apr 15 16:28:08 CDT 2010


On 04/15/10 17:02, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:43:12PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Not according to my reading of the updated license terms.  As far as I
>> can see, you get 90 days free trial, and then either you buy a full
>> support contract or you're in violation of license terms.  There appears
>> to be no such thing as a free hobbyist license any more.  (And the
>> support contracts aren't cheap; I can't find the percentage right now,
>> but if memory serves, it's a nontrivial percentage of the original
>> purchase cost of the hardware you're running it on.)
> 
> (c) Individual Use. You may use Software internally for personal,
> individual use. 
> 
> They say you can get the Entitlement for those via the download center.
> So the license doesn't preclude the possibility of hobbiest license, you
> just have to look a bit more.

Ah!  That looks more promising.  Must have missed it.  Does that say
that you can continue to use it past the 90 days without buying support?


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