On Thu, 02 May 2002 21:36:36 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > >On Thu, 2 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: > > > >>On Wednesday 01 May 2002 21:45, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > >>[snip] > >> > >>>I too agree. If I buy a car and drive it till it is rust, I can remove > >>>engine transmission, seats and what ever else is salvageable and sell them > >>>individually. They were part of an integral package to begin with, but I > >>>still can sell off the pieces. Heck, I could sell of the pieces two days > >>>after I bought it brand new, and put some other engine in it. What makes > >>>Windows so special? M$ is as arrogant as any company ever in existance. My > >>>$.02 > >>> > >>Not quite. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries there was the East India > >>Company, which successfully colonised most of the Indian subcontinent, and > >>was only absorbed into the British Empire after a mutiny of its native > >>soldiers resutled in unspeakable carnage. Presumably the moral is that > >>Microsoft should merge with the American government to create MSUSA. > >> > >>Sir Robin > >> > > > >O, that was foul! just plain below the belt. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > Well, someone who cannot post to the list because his ISP is out picking > daisies and not supplying reverse resolution sent me a missive pointing > out that no one buys Windows. It is a license one buys, nothing more. hi Civileme. uhm.. i do not agree with that part, nor do i think a proper trial would, just like the case of that guy that god sued by Adobe for reselling. "as long as the transaction has the form of a sell, it is a sell". period. if "buying" a cd of any kind of product implied that license, then the buyer should get to read a printed copy of the license or something, before he made the purchase. but if you just enter a shop, lay off some money and take a CD, then you just bought a CD, and the bytes contained in it do not matter until you put that CD in a reader device and read them. there's no such thing as "when you buy that CD you are really buying a license". Namely put, as long as you do not put the CD into a CD reader, it technically is just a piece of plastic to you. that's how that Adobe trial ended anyway.. Damian
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