Leopard Family Pack

For $199. They describe the requirements for getting a family pack:

1. First of all, how the hell can they control whether it's been installed 5 times on computers in the same house?

2. What if I was going to stay at a house with 3 other macs, but only for 20 days?

There are so many problems with this definition.

 

well you assume its your house, because I doubt anyone would Share there keys, and when you register you probably have to enter same address for all

 

well, unfortunately for me, I just spent loads and loads on a north and south american trip in dec. and january, and the only person living in my house that has a mac is away for the semester. And she's not into computers that much, so i doubt she would be interested.

This sucks

 

Yeah, that's quite a good question. The first time Mac OS X starts up and asks you to put in your information the the OS does phone home right in front of you and that may be the way Apple can tell how many installs are happening from the family pack and the place the computer resides.
As far as installing Leopard in one place and moving the computer to another residence the only thing I can think of is Apple tracking the I.P address, at any rate the rule is a bit lame but again Apple doesn't require activation which is inconvenient, they basically trust their customers to do the right thing.
Can't complain much if the company you buy from actually trusts you, Microsoft on the other hand literally forces piracy with their strict activation rules. Sometime I wonder why Windows users keep drinking Bill Gate's Kool Aid, he's not their friend.

 

And Jobs is our friend?

 

Bill Gates doesn't run Microsoft anymore. He run's the largest charity in the world.

 

Well, you weigh out the differences. Jobs offers his software for a fair enough price and still doesn't require serial numbers or activation. He offers a license for you to read and abide by and still trust you even if you break the license.

Gates offers the "WOW" experience, yeah , Wow it's expensive and I still have to activate it on only one computer? Hypothetically speaking, so I have to reformat my PC because I was having trouble with my Vista and guess what, Bill Gates stops his software from activating a second time even though I have the legal and valid serial number. Now I have to be inconvenienced and call one of Gates' underlings at Microsoft to have get the permission to allow my install to go through.

Hmm, neither of them are your friends but Gates' definitely is the foe.

 

^^
and Leopard is only 129 for the ultimate version...
there isn't like 6 different kinds & then the best one is like 250..Leopard will give you the best & for cheaper.

 

and Leopard is sexier .... waaaaaaaaaaay sexier.

 

I don't know much behind this...but it could be possible that there isn't any way of Apple stopping you from using this method. Its just whether you want to follow the rules or not.

As for the pricing...c'mon...Microsoft Office Student Edition is more pricey than a full version of Leopard "Ultimate"!

 

OS X phones home? WTH? At least in Tiger, the "registration" process is completely optional. I happened to open my Macbook in the car seat at the mall parking place (couldn't wait!). There was no net access there, so I simply canceled the registration. And it never ever asked me to do it again. Up to now, all OS X DVDs can be installed in as many computers as you try without any kind of checking or activation. And I haven't seem any indication Leopard is going to be any different.

 

It's not recommended for you to promote this action on the forums as it greatly violates the EULA.

 

I don't think he was necessarily "promoting" this action. He was just trying to make (an implicit) point

 

He was not promoting anything. To date, Apple has not stopped anyone from installing OS X on as many machines as you wish. They trust their customers to play by the rules, and they do for the most part. Think about it, you have to have a Mac in order to run OS X. They already have made their money.

Having said that, I would hope the OP would be honest and abide by the EULA.