Re: Help with XP Activation please!!

From: Peter Loosen (PeterLoosen_at_epost.de)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:49:26 +0100

Dear Bruce,

> Did that court decision specifically stated that its decision
> applied to *all* OEM software, or was it a more narrow case involving
> one specific software product/class bundled with one specific piece or
> class of hardware? Were specific conditions stipulated?
If I remember rigth it was a case which dealt with a Microsoft OS. But
since this decision this legal position is generally applied here in
Germany to any kind of software.

> Otherwise, if
> this trend continues, I would expect international computer and software
> manufacturers to start abandoning the German market.
This is not very likely, at least MS is still doing business here in
Germany.

>Who'd want to try
> to do business in a country that disregards the intellectual property
> and contract laws of other nations?
Why are intellectual property rights violated? The court decision says,
that the customer is free to use the property right he received which
the purchase of the software to utilize the software on any kind of
hardware. Well thatīs the point of view of the german high court and it
goes without saying that other countries migth have (and in factt do
have) other ways of interpreting intelectual property issues. But I
think that each country has to respect the positions of his partner
countries and has to accept (and in fact does) if there is a different
way to interprete general rules - at least this is my point of view.

Kind regards

Peter

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