George Bonser writes: > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>> They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very >> ambiguous. You get the idea. > The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along > the lines of: > "This software is owned by Microsoft, not you. You have purchased > the right to run it on one machine and make one copy for backup > purposes." Well, since you were not told, neither did you agree with that when you *bought* (not borrowed, leased, or anything like it) that computer with Windows bundlend in it, the only one that can be sued is the vendor -- and only if M$ told him that they where not supposed to resell Windows, which I don't thinks it's likely to have happened! But I'd love to see M$ suing every vendor, and waiting to see how many of them would go on bundling Windows thereafter. BTW, imagine Coca-Cola company knocking in your door, and telling you that you do not own the Coke you bought at the supermarket, and so you cannot do anything they don't want you to do with it. As I stated before (even though I restate I'm not a lawyer), the companies (and people) have limits on what and how they can impose on licenses... One can write anything one wants, but that has not legal value. Or I could send an spam like: "By receiving this email you agreed to install Debian on your computer, and delete all the other operating systems in it." How about that? -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]