Re: Buying a new copy of XP

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geak skwad wrote:
> It is not the end user's responsibility to try to uphold Microsoft's
> eula and try to prove it is a binding contract (or not) in a court of
> law. It is Microsoft's responsibility to do that because it is their
> license agreement. If an end user breaks their license agreement by
> not following it to the letter, then it becomes a contract dispute
> and the ball is in Microsoft's court to take the next step in that
> process. It is rediculous to expect an end user to take the next
> step when it is Microsoft's responsibility to do so.
>
> As a matter of fact, coming into MS newsgroups and other public areas
> that MS has access to and repeatedly stating over and over that it has
> in fact not been proven in a court of law is challenging them IMHO.
> These people who do that are making their opinion known in the public
> domain. It's not just blowing smoke as you put it. Now it is time
> for MS to step up to the plate and stand behind their license (which
> they obviously are not doing when it comes to non-commercial use in
> the privacy of one's own home). So it seems to me that MS is the
> only one blowing smoke.

It is blowing smoke.
If you are not willing to show you are breaking the agreement in a public
light - make it known in full - and then see what happens, then it is
"blowing smoke". You cannot sue someone for insinuating they don't mind if
someone might maybe not obey the EULA.

Saying that it has not been proven in a court of law is not a challenge..
that's a statement of fact. A challenge would be proving you are not
obeying the EULA, flaunting that fact and seeing what happens.

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