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I was referring to this: http://clevescene.com/2005-03-30/news/kill-bill/1

Yea, you can resale the software so long as you agree to the EULA first, but if you sell it before installing it - you haven't agreed to the EULA and are therefore not an authorized end user and can't resell the software.

"Yes, you can do that, yes, it is legal, and no, MS is not stopping people from doing so."

Maybe now you can after this poor dude, David Zamos, tried to sell his copy, and faced the wrath of Microsoft's lawyers. But David fought back. An amazing and sad story, IMHO, how big corps expect us pee-on consumers' to just roll over.

Citing a "time management issue", he literally had to agree to disagree, but now can't discuss it at all. My guess is to discourage others from succeeding as he has done.

Citing a "time management issue", he literally had to agree to disagree, but now can't discuss it at all. My guess is to discourage others from succeeding as he has done.

"Microsoft has rarely (if ever) used the lawsuit as a weapon."

Oh, ask David Zamos, a poor college student, who was under attack from Microsoft. http://clevescene.com/issues/2005-03-30/news/featu re_print.html And the best part, he WON all by himself.

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Well, that but they could save a license and sell it to someone who wanted it and would really use it, and maybe it would help offset the shipping costs.

If you do, make sure it's a private sale and don't put it on eBay. The Doctrine of First Sale won't keep you out of court, and it'll cost lots of broilers to do it! :)

God, "DiDiot". That's rough.

I had someone pissed off at me post thousands of messages accusing me of pedophile rape. There's people who go out of their way to hurt folks online, including finding their friends and employers, trying to get them fired, and in some cases succeeding... over the most trivial things. I don't know of anyone doing it because of their choice of OS yet, but Microsoft sued a kid for selling his copy of Windows and Office on eBay because he couldn't take them back... and that kind of action generates a lot nastier responses than mild name-calling.

There's a lot of really screwed up people on line. No matter what you do, you're eventually going to run into some of them. If you can't handle that, stay off the Internet.

He tried to return a copy of XP that he purchased at his campus bookstore. First the bookstore refused the return. Then Microsoft refused. So he sold it on eBay. eBay took down the auction, but then later allowed it. Microsoft countered by suing him, and trying to take his 2002 Escort as damages. Good story. I won't ruin the ending.

--H

Well, that and the free porn on TV

Sweeeeet... *fires up VCR*

Anyone want a torrent?

Well, that and the free porn on TV

He caught the internet wave when Markos said "Fuck them" about the four contractors killed and mutilated in Fallujah, and Seeman defended Kos. Money flowed to Seeman's campaign from the true believers only then.

Hey, Seeman? Fuck you.

If you do not understand what I am talking about, mod not, but read this.

"Markos Moulitsas, posted some harsh words about the American contractors who were murdered, burned, and strung up on a bridge by insurgents in Fallujah. "I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries," Moulitsas wrote. "Screw them." ...
Seemann stepped into the breach. He ponied up $400 to place an ad, and put out a press release explaining why: "It's his right to say it, and as a Democrat with a backbone, I'm not gonna be bullied."

• Homeschool isn't a viable option. Not everybody has the time, much less the qualification, to teach their children. When both parents work full-time to bring in a decent amount of money, somebody else has to educate the kids.
• Private school isn't a choice for everyone. (Vouchers? I don't have a problem with my tax dollars funding public schools that are open to all. I DO have a problem with funding private/religious schools that are selective with my tax money. Paying for public schools, that's for the greater good. Paying for private schools is only paying for the good of those the school chooses to accept.)
• Charter schools are in most cases a joke. Here in Ohio, (suprise, suprise) they're all screwed up. There was one in Coloumbus that had no electricity and only a single Port-O-Potty. There was one in Cleveland that built a brand new, multi-million dollar facility...that never got finished becuase they ran out of state money.

So what do we replace the broken public schools with? We don't. We fix the damned things. The first step to fixing them is making the kids want to learn. The problem is that most of them are some of the laziest people you will ever see. Then there are the average kids that are brought down be the lazy ones. "If they don't give a shit, why should I?" Flawed logic? Definately. But it is what's going on inside their heads. Then there are the above-average kids. They are very bright, but get by being lazy because (1) they're good test takers and (2) lowered expectations from their teachers.

How to get them to want to learn and not be lazy is left as an exercise to the reader. You can bet your ass that the good teachers have been trying for years unsuccessfully. A good first step is getting the parents to care. If those kids know that bringing home a report card full of Ds and Fs will result in a very unpleasant experience, they'll be a little bit more motivated. (Which is why private schools don't have the problems public ones do -- the parents care enough to spend the cash to send them to private school, and they're gonna care enough to make sure that their money is "well-spent," meaning the kids bring home good grades.

What we really need to do is stop looking at schools as big business. Public schools do not exist solely to sell routers and T1s to. It's a side note to what they are there for -- providing a quality education. And DAMNIT, stop taking their money away to pay for these novelty solutions that DON'T WORK!

Mitchell [a charter school principal] worries that his school will be judged not by the citizens it nurtures, but by the bottom-line performance standards it meets. "It's not a business at all," he continues. "We deal with human beings, not products."

Funny, because that's what public schools have been saying all along.

http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2003-11-26/featur e.html/print.html