What is unilicense? Unilicense concepts refers to a licensing scheme where the user is allowed to extend the protection of ESET NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security to parallel OS on his or her machine - running through a boot utility or in a virtual environment (at no extra costs). User may deploy home edition user licenses on the operating system of choice in a mix-and-match fashion.
What does this mean to consumers? Firstly, if you are a techie running multiple Operating Systems within a single machine, you will only need to purchase 1 license which will enable you to install ESET solution to several Operating Systems within the same machine. Mac users will be delighted that they will not need to pay for an extra license for the antivirus protection on their Windows virtual image via bootcamp. Finally, if you are upgrading your Windows based PC to a Mac or a Linux based PC or vice versa, you may reuse that license on your new PC so as long as the ESET software is removed from the old PC.
What would be the limitations of unilicensing? If you purchased OEM versions, you cannot port the installation from 1 machine to another. Unilicense works only with specific products. Check with your reseller to see if the product has unilicense feature.
Has our unilicense concept got you interested? Stay tune to the launch of ESET Smart Security 5 Home Edition and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5 Home Edition.
