On Monday 19 May 2008, Sudev Barar wrote: > [snip] > I did not buy a product from M$ nor I paid for it (the manufacturer > may have done) so there is no contract between me and M$? > [more snip]
Point of order here: A licence is not a contract. A licence is a unilateral grant of privileges by the author of the software (MS in this case) to the user (you). Without the licence you do not have ANY rights on the software at all. A contract is a bilateral agreement between two parties, typically for some form of renumeration. Technically, unless you accept MS' licence terms, you do not have any rights to the software at all. On the other hand, since you do not agree to their terms, you do not have any restrictions either... you just have some bits on the hard disk of your computer, and if you choose to put those bits up for download on P2P they probably can't sue you. Currently downloading: Contents_of_my_new_Lenovo_laptop_hard_disk.iso :) Whether you agree or not, there is no contract between you and MS. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
