Re: Is it legal?

In message Dimitriy Levin <dlevin[_at_]stega.smoky.org> writes:
>
> Hi everyone. I have a generic question:
>
> Is it legal (under the Fair Use laws or in any other way) to install a
> piece of software on all computers within network for one or two days
> for the sake of demonstrating it and comparing it with another piece
> of software? (Ex: Installing MS Word to show it to all network users
> and to compare it with WordPerfect that's already on the network)

No.

But it is just possible that if you apply to MS they might grant you a special permission. I tried this for a demo about three years ago.

Ms offered me a licence for about 2000 ukp. Someone at Microsoft ended up telling me to just do it, but make sure they were wiped.

In the end IBM came up trumps and did it all for me.

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