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SL: Family pack? Or just the one..
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sudbury, ON
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Say I have 3 Macs in my home. Do I have to buy the family pack SL DVD? Say I have 6 Macs in my home, would Apple know that I was supposed to buy the family pack?
I don't get it..
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
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There's no copy protections or network check if that's what you're asking. Apple doesn't treat their customers like criminals. That said, it's $50 for the family pack. Suck it up and buy it. You won't be violating the license agreement and Apple gets the value for the work they did.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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I have 3 Intel Macs to update, so I got the Family Pack. Not only is it the "right" thing to do, it's very affordable.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Back in the Good Ole US of A
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Originally Posted by dzp111 
I don't get it..
Apple trusts you will buy the appropriate number of copies of the OS. It's your prerogative to honor that trust.
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MacBook Pro 13" 2.8GHz Core i7/8GB RAM/750GB Hard Drive - Mac OS X 10.7.3
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Say a clerk gives you $20 extra in change. Do you have to give it back?
Same question.
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Ya gotta applaud those bunnies for sacrificing their hearing just so some guy in Yonkers can have better TV reception.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Originally Posted by Gregg
Say a clerk gives you $20 extra in change. Do you have to give it back?
Same question.
Me personally? Yes, I DO "have to" give it back. that extra $20 would come out of the clerk's pay. I'd turn it into a teaching moment (I LOVE teaching "counting back change"), but I would not sleep if I had not given it back.
As for the analogy you try to set up here, it's flawed. Scale has nothing to do with "what is right." Cheating is cheating, whether you're cheating a minimum-wage clerk or the largest of corporations. While many Microsoft OS users have sort of made a game of avoiding license requirements, that doesn't make their actions right.
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by Gregg
Say a clerk gives you $20 extra in change. Do you have to give it back?
Absolutely!
But, buying a family pack for 2-3 same household comps seems (I don't know..) illogical.
BTW, is the Family pack DVD the exact same (data-wise) as the Single one?
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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There's the single license version and the 5 license version. You have more than one computer so you need to buy the 5 license version. Nothing illogical about that and frankly, is downright obvious.
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Family pack is what, $45 on sale? That's not exactly a king's ransom. And I'm a serious cheapskate.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally Posted by dzp111
BTW, is the Family pack DVD the exact same (data-wise) as the Single one?
I think so. But, so what?
Originally Posted by ghporter
As for the analogy you try to set up here, it's flawed.
Yeah, strictly tongue-in-cheek. The dollar amounts are closer than the entities potentially being ripped off.
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Ya gotta applaud those bunnies for sacrificing their hearing just so some guy in Yonkers can have better TV reception.
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