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Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
I fail to see where "Mr. or Ms. Raven" stated he or she
was a Microsoft employee.

Please see my reply to Larry. I saw three titles below his/her name:
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Microsoft Licensing Sales
Specialist, Microsoft Small Business Specialist. I also admitted that I
may have misunderstood the meaning of these titles, but they certainly
look like job titles to me.

Your assumption is wrong,
and the remainder of your post is also categorically wrong.

How so?

Case dismissed!

Judges only talk like that on TV. :)

A good argument (not a food fight, but an argument, in the philosophical
or legal sense), consists of a premise, evidence for the premise, and a
conclusion.

An assertion is not an argument. I can't do anything with what you
wrote, because I don't know what you're saying.

I do know that I am not a person who has been picking at you or trying
to get your goat, so treating me as if I am hardly seems like the right
thing to do.

In the world I live in, the agreement is the agreement, and that's what
the EULA is--an agreement. So it doesn't matter what people say about
the EULA, it only matters what the EULA says about itself. I even
doublechecked--because sometimes an agreement of this sort will say
something along the lines of "continued use of <product> after a change
in the terms of this agreement implies consent to the new terms"--but I
didn't find anything in my EULA to indicate that the agreement can be
changed, unless a new EULA becomes applicable as the result of a
software up(or down)grade. I expect that's because such changes have to
be announced in a way that the company has reasonable certainty the
consumer will have access to them, and I don't imagine Microsoft wants
to send out that many letters.

I don't have a horse in this race, Carey. In other words, I am without
an ax to grind. And there's a reason for that:

I remember when everyone used bootlegged software (and a lot of those
people were lawyers, go figure). I remember different software companies
trying out one or another software protection scheme because they were
starving while everyone and his brother were using their product without
paying for it. I remember when most people didn't pay their shareware
fees, because there was no way to force them to do so. I remember people
asking to borrow my disks because they didn't want to shell out the
bucks for whatever program it happened to be, although that didn't
happen too often to me, because I was using a Mac.

I also remember a brief time when support was free (and an earlier time
when there was no support at all, except peer support), and even people
with bootlegged copies could call up and get help, because that's just
the way things were.

It was wrong (I always paid for my software), and I can understand why
Microsoft has gone to the lengths it has to protect its intellectual
property. But I don't think that attempts to interpret the agreement to
force an end-user to buy an additional license for a product s/he
already owns (just because his/her computer blew up, which is what the
OP was asking about) is what anyone had in mind. It's certainly not what
my EULA says, and I doubt I am unique.

If I were the original poster, I would just write to (not call)
Microsoft, and ask for a determination, because this thread is totally
out of control.

rl


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