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Old February 3rd 05, 01:25 AM
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Noel Paton wrote:
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I hesitate to join in this slanging match. However.

You have bought a licence, which has certain conditions attached

to
it.
Those conditions are enforceable at law under most jurisdictions.


That depends on the license.



The License terms have been tested in the US and the UK courts - and

stand.

Direct me to an example of it tested in the U.S court system.


If you buy the freehold on a house, you are almost certain to buy

it
with covenants attached. These may say, for arguments sake, that

you
cannot erect an advertising hoarding on the land. The covenant

will
certainly say that as a condition of sale that these restrictions

will
apply to all heirs, successors and other purchasers. If you then

build a
hoarding and one of the heirs or successors of the person or

company
who
originally sold the house and land and imposed the covenant cares

to
go
to law they will win, unless the covenant can be shown to be

grossly
unreasonable.


very bad example. You cannot draw a parallel here, since this is so
completely different than what we are talking about here.


Not at all - Microsoft own the software - you only own a license!


Breaking zoning laws is still not the same thing. There are legitimate
and enforceable reasons for covenants.


In the same way Microsoft will have imposed certain conditions on

Dell,
over and above those conditions in a retail licence, in granting

them
a
licence to sell PC's with Windows installed. In exchange the

licence
would have been considerably cheaper than the cost of a retail

licence,
and Dell will have passed some of that saving onto yourself when

you
bought the Dell machine. The licence will require Dell to impose

the
conditions on the purchaser of the PC. At law these conditions

are
enforceable.


This is not about Microsoft imposing restrictions on Dell. What is

not
enforceable is Dell imposing the restriction mentioned on the user.


IT IS about Microsoft's terms and conditions - Dell merely act as a

Vendor
in law


And again, IT IS about enforcing the restrications you mentioned on me.


Whether Microsoft or Dell would actually come after you is another
matter, it would depend upon them finding out and whether you were

worth
suing. So it might be better to keep schtoom as to what you do in

the
privacy of your own home. If I were you and I was in business,

then
I
would look over my shoulder, from time to time.


Well, I'm not in business, and you are paranoid.


Neither of which would prevent you being prosecuted, should MS take

such a
step.


With our screwed up judicial system they can prosecute me for
breathing.


To expand on the car example. If your old car is totalled, and all

you
have left are the tires, you can still use them again. And no
restrictions by Firestone imposed on Ford will give them the

ability to
enforce a rule that says you cannot use those tires anymore.

The original Dell was crap, and the OS is all I have left of it.

And
since the pc I put it on also belongs to me, I intend to get the

most
out of it.


Experiences count for nothing in law - and the CD is legally

worthless, and
any install from it legally a no-no.
The ONLY machine that CD was legally allowed to run on was the

machine it
came with.


BTW. Direct me to where it says that in my license.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 




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