[labnetwork] Software End of Life Ramifications

[Michael Khbeis]

Mark,

While I cannot speak to the legal ramifications of what you are suggesting, usually contacting the service manager of the OEM or an officially licensed 2nd source vendor, you may get a courtesy/academic waiver for the license. 

Also, we mirror the drives of our systems pretty regularly to try to avoid with ending up with a paperweight tool due to a PC failure.

Best,

Dr. Michael Khbeis
Associate Director, Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) 
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN)
University of Washington
Fluke Hall, Box 352143
(O) 206.543.5101
(F) 206.221.1681
(C) 443.254.5192
khbeis at uw.edu
www.wnf.washington.edu/

> On Aug 19, 2015, at 4:14 PM, Mark Heiden <mheiden at engr.ucr.edu> wrote:
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> With the death of windows XP most equipment vendors have been forced to stop supporting their own software that runs tools on that platform. Since some of us cannot afford to upgrade our entire enterprise with typically new PC’s with vendor specific interface hardware and software is there a method to share obsolete applications without the fear of repercussions from the vendors? I understand the need for licensing new supported software, but once a company washes it’s hands of a product and offers no support other than to sell you a newer version can owners that paid once already share copies to keep running for a while?
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> For example, if we had a failed Window XP PC on a Dektak 8 and needed to reload the software and drivers to run our perfectly good Dektak could someone share a copy of that software?
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> Just curious.
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> Mark Heiden
> NanoFab Cleanroom Manager
> Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
> University of California, Riverside
> 951-827-2551
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