I love i9t. It just keeps geting more and more interesting. Wait til DOJ
and some of the states get in on it. More noise , more likely they will act
on it.
Funny how all of a sudden they want to turn back on the licence , and yet
they want you to agree and follow it.
At 02:23 PM 2/18/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> WBM@USA wrote:
>
>> February 16, 1999
>> Protesters Seek Refunds on Windows
>
>> City, Calif. Many carried unopened Windows systems and asked for
>> refunds.
>
>> focused on a clause in the Windows license included
>> with the software that comes installed on personal computers. That
>> clause states that users who do not agree to the terms of the license
>> can request a refund.
>>
>> computers sold throughout the world. For instance, most new machines
>> are set up to boot Windows automatically when a user turns them on.
>> And in a classic Catch-22, that in itself apparently constitutes an
>> implied acceptance of the license, even though there is no way to get
>> rid of the Windows operating system without turning the computer on in
>> the first place.
>
>Since Microsoft is not giving refunds, alot of people are saying that
>the
>implicit license means nothing, and that they consider their copies to
>be
>"freely distributed code".
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