Re: Legality of OEM Win XP 1-2 CPU

From: Hermes (hermes_at_messenger.net)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:20:21 -0500

Before the MVP (M$ Victim Poster) Hermes responded, Tee typed:

> "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospamcableone.net> wrote in message
> news:eFxrNrdSEHA.3012@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Greetings --
>>
>> Ah, yes. The much-ballyhoo-ed "Fair Use" argument. This is
>> nothing more than a red herring that isn't even applicable in the case
>> of making unauthorized copies of software for daily use, either
>> personal or commercial. Specifically:
>
> How is using the same copy, a second time, making an unauthorized second
> copy?

Its not. That is like saying putting installation files on a server, then
keeping the installation media/CD intact in storage for safekeeping is
making a second unauthorized copy.

>
>> You might also try actually reading the law, though it won't
>> support your position:
>
> As I stated in anothe reply to you a copyright attorney is who told me of
> this. It came up while I was meeting one of my clients, her husband, in his
> store, and he was complaining about problems with his OS and said he liked
> the XP on his wife's machine better.
>
> Fact is that most software companies don't try to limit people to this by
> making them buy 3 separate cds or licenses if they have 3 computers in their
> home. Its assinine IMO. That's not to say that I don't respect the EULA or
> MS's right to try and place this restriction on people but I do think its
> unfair. I still don't believe that, in a court of law MS v Jane Doe, that
> MS would win because Jane Doe installed XP Home on two computers in her
> house.

M$ has yet to even try to enforce it in a court of law. I eagerly await
the day this happens. 

-- 
hermes
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Windows XP crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

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