The other day I received a Flickr mail from Emma at Schmap telling me my picture was chosen to be used in their latest version of Schmap Salt Lake City Guide. I demand some advertising fee, Grand America Hotel!
One co-worker of mine recently bought a new bare-bone laptop. Since it’s a bare-bone, there was no operating system pre-installed. He came to me with a simple question “Can I install the Windows Vista I have from my old laptop onto this one?” I then told him he could but he has to call Microsoft to activate Vista on the new computer and the installation on the old one would no longer work since the license agreement for Vista only permits one machine to be activated at a time. And it’s enforced by giving a unique identification number to each computer and registering the number with Microsoft’s server.
We are no stranger to software licenses, they are everywhere. Even for Open Source, they have their open source license. We are so used to it we never read it while installing a program; we never give much thoughts about it; we accept it as a fact.