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5-user license 10.3 different from single user?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
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I was debating on getting the 5-user license of OS X 10.3, but I was wondering what is different about it, because my housemates and I won't be living together too much longer. Will it be a problem when/if we move out?
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Seriously, if you bought a 5-user license, that's exactly what you will get - the right to legally install it on 5 machines. It shouldn't matter if one of the machines is here, there, or in Timbuktu - you paid to put it on 5 machines.
right?
Wrong.
"(5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household."
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Sorry for the crosspost, Charles. 
Further, it appears if you want to sell a machine that has one of a family pack license on it, technically you must downgrade to a single-user license before sale. (or transfer the ENTIRE family pack to the new owner)
(Last edited by Thor; Oct 10, 2003 at 03:12 AM.
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Yeah, yeah.
But the good news is that Apple doesn't have draconian serial-number monitoring schemes in place that will break your machine at will.
This is why I WANT to buy legal copies of X.
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What exactly do you get in the Family Pack? Is it just one set of discs and the ability to register 5 times or what?
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Mac Elite
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Originally posted by I Me Mine:
What exactly do you get in the Family Pack? Is it just one set of discs and the ability to register 5 times or what?
Yes, it's a license to install a particlar CD on up to 5 machines.
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Ok thanks. 
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So, anyone know for sure if there are any technical differences between the single user retail version of Panther and the family pack?
I'm thinking there isn't, but I have a friend who wants to do this and he's worried that all licenses have to be on the same network or something.
Anyone know for sure?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
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And so... if you took the powerbook with one of the licenses on it off the network with the others, are bad things going to happen?
Of course not.
The family pack is a way for honest people to stay honest. The only difference between the single install and the family pack is a sticker on the outside of the box that says family pack, and a printed addendum to the license agreement allowing the product to be on 5 machines in the same household. The technology on the CDs is the same.
All you truly get for your money is the warm fuzzy of knowing you've done the right thing and followed the rules.
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OS X: Where software installation doesn't require wizards with shields.
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Addicted to MacNN
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Thanks! That's what I wanted to hear. My friend decided to get a few buddies together and get this, but he didn't tell me until AFTER I got my full priced single user copy. Oh well, I'm enjoying Panther now, and they're still in dusty ole Jaguar.
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