FM on a Mac

[Alan T Litchfield]

On 8/01/2010, at 11:08 AM, Peter Gold wrote:

> The question, I guess, is about how Windows handles this. It's quite
> possible that authorizing an Adobe installed product may not be a
> problem across different VMs on the same physical computer, if the
> popular notion that the physical hard disk information is keyed to
> authorization.
>


Good point Peter. Is authorisation against each CPU address, mac  
address, or the software system? Only the license agreement can answer  
that question and they vary considerably across software publishers  
and their products.

I would have thought that the authorisation was handled by the Adobe  
authorisation application (you know, that's the buggy one that so  
often fails and requires people to install components, reinstall  
applications, or even their whole system) rather than Windows itself.  
Once it had been installed on first-install and authorised then any  
subsequent reinstallations ought to be regarded as reinstalls rather  
than as duplicate installations. To be safe (license-wise) perhaps the  
tests can be run in series and not in parallel?

Alan

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