[TriLUG] Opening Office files

Vestal, Roy L. rvestal at rti.org
Tue Aug 6 12:16:43 EDT 2002


Office XP is not allowed to be run on anthing other than 98/NT/2000/XP
Office 2000 is not allowed to be run on anything other than 98/ME/2000/XP
Office 97 is not allowed to be run on anything other than 95/98/ME/2000/XP

It specifically says running it in an operating system "other than" the ones
listed in the ELUA (including other MS OS'), was a direct violation of the
license agreement AND copyright. My job requires me to know their EULA's.

The EULA changed with Office 97 due to the fact we team OS/2'ers (yes I was
a member) found a way to run Office 95 on Os/2 Warp Connect. This "seemed"
to coincide with the timing of the EULA change.

I can get quotes from the EULA's if you'd like.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tanner Lovelace [mailto:lovelace at wayfarer.org] 
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 10:49 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Opening Office files


On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 10:21, Chris Knowles wrote:
> even so you are breaking the EULA by running Office on a non-Windows 
> box.

Actually, while that may be the case for Office XP, I'm not sure it's the
case for Office 2000, and I'm almost positive it's not the case for Office
97.  I agree that MS is putting that in it's current EULA's, but I think it
took them a bit to realize they wanted to put it in there.

Tanner
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