>>I have not done the actual legal research to determine if this is kosher, and so far I have not installed my work copy on my home computer. What are your thoughts on the matter, and is this something that you yourself do?
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> Yeah, this loophole was already exploited by a number of companies who sold programs that did software-metering. For example, Company X had 500 employees who needed access to MS Office. Since all 500 didn't need access at the same time, they decided 100 copies would be enough. These 100 licenses would "float" between all 500 users. The metering software would keep track of all the licenses to make sure they only had 100 instances of it running at any one time. Of course, in the case of MS (and a lot of other companies), they've since removed this "loophole".

Take a look at what NAI (Network Associates - the people who put out McAfee AV)does for their corporate clients - if you have a site license, then for each seat license you pay for, you not only license a machine at your site, but one of your employee's home systems as well! It wasn't from the goodness of their hearts - it was one more reason for corporations to use McAfee as their AV softwarebuying it from NAI instead of Symantec's Norton AV. As someone who made the decision to go with NAI's TVD package, I can guarentee you that this entered into the purchase decision, because when we have people working from home, it's to our advantage to have our people use a legal and current copy of a solidly-supported AV product.

It's a way that NAI made it that much more attractive to use their product rather than the competition's stuff, with the realization that they weren't losing business - rather than forcing people to pirate stuff, they generated a whole lot of good will by letting our people not steal from them! A neat and reasonable solution to some of the piracy issues.