Re: License unfairness ? Rant...

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kurttrail wrote:
| Slip Kid wrote:
|| On or about %, kurttrail with due consideration, replied :
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||| Just ignore MS's Licensing nonsense. An educated consumer knows how
||| to protect their rights to their copies of software.
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||| http://microscum.com/mmpafaq/
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|| I'm not an attorney. Nor do I have the means to defend myself if I
|| am found to be in violation (by following your position). I don't
|| doubt that 'any' corporation would hesitate to make me or anyone an
|| example, dragging me through as many courts as necessary showing it
|| isn't worth the risk of winning. I don't have a staff of attorneys
|| on my payroll.
||
|| My point was narrow. If I subscribe to the 'spirit' of EULA (which
|| is probably stricter than necessary for personal use) I still
|| believe the playing field is not level.
||
|| I have two complaints:
||
|| 1. I believe there is a way for something that has the typical
|| lifespan of an OS (yet is becoming functionaly 'outdated' sooner than
|| ever?) to be offered with greater flexabilty for medium range
|| updates. For a few bucks one could get a current version, a new
|| disc, of the OS they already purchased (and anticipated being viable
|| for at least a few years). A disc that is less than a year old is of
|| little value if it is but the 'beginning' of the reinstall process.
|| So, at the minimum an OS should be allowed to be updated for far less
|| than the 'update' price of a newer version.
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|| I don't believe I am not, not educated. I understand the dilemma
|| when a company not only sells a product that is easily duplicated
|| but sells it to busineses that can copy it hundreds or thousands of
|| times. It's not a common situation with most products.
||
|| 2. However? I see a distinction between the commercial use and
|| personal use of software. (If anything, the business is making a
|| profit for use of the product yet still has all the advantages?!)
||
|| Yes, the benefit of commercial licenses is more favorable by any
|| measure as compared to any product. Be it pencils or fuel.
||
|| No one argues there should not be a benefit if one is buying '500' of
|| anything versus three or four?
||
|| With OS's! It doesn't compare to any product that one buys in a
|| quantity of 500 versus three or four.
||
|| I checked the volume agreements? I don't believe the fee for 250
|| licenses are going to put a strain on any business that uses 250
|| machines relative to three or four units for residential use.
||
|| Simply put:
||
|| How does the purchase of 250 OS licenses compare to buying 250 cars
|| or 250 desks versus three or four?
||
|| It begs the questin: Is the personal consumer in the same world
|| regarding software as a business uses it when compared to any other
|| product each may buy? Name a product that a business buys which is
|| as 'cheap' compared to personal use?
||
|| Why?
||
|| Why not give the consumer a better break for a few units?
||
|| Is the personal consumer subsidising the OEM and business
|| environment?
|
| It's been 13 years since MS has added their One Computer term to their
| OS EULA. MS is about as likely to pursue it now as I am likely to win
| $500,000,000 in the lottery.
|
| As besides that, MS has no way to figure out that you've install WinXP
| on more than one computer, unless YOU tell them.

Kurt I believe that you are missing the core of the OP's rant.
_Big money corporations over joe sixpack and granny with her
pictures of the grandkids._


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