> A much more intelligent response is to let capitalism work the way > it's supposed to. Don't give your money to companies like that. > Period. If you continue to support their business, then stop whining > about it
Well said, and directly on point when it comes to what we can do about abusive, self-serving "agreements" with software producers who bully their customers, because they can. For anyone who thinks M$ is in total control of the marketplace, and consumers have no say in their direction, I need only point to the most recent delay in M$ trying to kill XP in favor of Vista. I have tried to use Vista and make sense of its design, the "protections" put into place to keep me out of trouble, the need to pretty much disable all such protections just to enable it to run as sluggishly as it does when stripped of the poorly executed "protections", and I am very much underwhelmed. I do not need the eye candy offered as opposed to true enhancements, and I dread the day I find my clients being trapped into getting Vista whether they want it or not as they replace their PCs over the next few years. M$ may end up winning this war eventually, but it is going to bleed customers off that will end up finally saying enough is enough, and seek alternatives (Linux, OpenOffice, etc.). Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 7:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] About OEM WinXP -- continued > > > On Oct 22, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Mark Stanton wrote: > > >> I just phoned Micro$oft Hong Kong. My guess was/is correct. The OEM > >> WinXP and OEM Office licenses that accompanied a PC would expire when > >> that PC died. There is no legal way of transferring to another PC, > >> even > >> though the PC is of the same build as the dead one. The OEM > >> licenses are > >> tied to the "soul" of the PC. > > > > Isn't that a rather convenient thing for them to say? Does it > > sound reasonable? > > Fair? Legal? Or perhaps not... > > They can say whatever they want. If you have the legal > firepower to > challenge them, be my guest. > > A much more intelligent response is to let capitalism work the way > it's supposed to. Don't give your money to companies like that. > Period. If you continue to support their business, then stop whining > about it. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
