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If you bought your computer with Windows or Office pre-installed (the so-called OEM licenses, or the "shrink wrap" Windows discs), <strong>if you change computers you must buy software again.</strong>
The license is linked to one computer, and expires when the computer dies. It is then illegal to transfer the software on another computer.
If you go to most of the free software sites, you can click down a couple of levels and find the [GNU] <abbr title="General Public License, the main free software license">GPL</abbr>, the X license, the Apache license, whichever terms and conditions you have to accept in order to use that software.
Now with a proprietary software company, the license is buried so you can't read it until after you have paid for the product, then they're asking you to <strong>turn off part of your brain</strong>, they're asking you to turn off part of your ability to work with other people and to do business, when you use their software.
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Companies like Microsoft like to assimilate their software to physical products, when mentioning copyright infringement for example. Yet, proprietary software is very different because of the restrictive license &ndash; such restrictions would be unthinkable on a car or bicycle, for example.
Restrictions on the use of Office and Windows are so harsh, that many violations occur everyday around us. People are tempted to buy only one version of Microsoft Office and install it on two computers. Others keep their version of Windows when they throw their PC away. Other people give away their second-hand Windows software when they stop using it.
<strong>You have an alternative to breaking this law,</strong> or feeling very restrained when you abide to it. GNU/Linux is <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html" rel="external">Free Software</a> (much better than just freeware): its <a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" rel="external" title="GNU General Public License">GPL</a> is designed to protect your rights.
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There is much more to software than being trustworthy (being "Open-Source"): what really counts is <strong>the freedoms you get</strong> over it. Can you learn from it? Can you build upon it? Can you distribute it? That's what we refer to as "free software".

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  2. getgnulinux.pot
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Companies like Microsoft like to assimilate their software to physical products, when mentioning copyright infringement for example. Yet, proprietary software is very different because of the restrictive license &ndash; such restrictions would be unthinkable on a car or bicycle, for example.
Companies like Microsoft like to assimilate their software to physical products, when mentioning copyright infringement for example. Yet, proprietary software is very different because of the restrictive license &ndash; such restrictions would be unthinkable on a car or bicycle, for example.
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docroot/lib/views/windows.restrictions.php:69
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