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Microsoft: You Need Permission to Sell Our Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 29, 2002 @08:02AM from the signed-permission-slip-from-mom dept.

IEEEmember writes "Microsoft has objected to the sale of bankrupt KMart's Bluelight.com Internet unit to United Online. Microsoft's objection to the sale is based on the non-transferability of software licenses protected by copyright law according to the Reuters story on Yahoo! News. This action by Microsoft should serve as a warning to any corporation that has a significant investment in Microsoft licenses. Dependency on Microsoft licenses may grant Microsoft the ability to veto your business decisions."

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First Sale by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-29 08:05 · Score: 0, Troll

what in the holy hell happened to the first sale doctrine?First Sale
Re:Question? by Tablizer · 2002-10-29 08:42 · Score: 0, Troll

Does MS have a say in whether or not I can give my lil bro my old PC?

Yeah, the one who wants to try out his new pellet gun.

(And yes, he really wants a Beowulf cluster of pellet guns.)

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Re:Question? by Tablizer · 2002-10-29 10:15 · Score: 0, Troll

I don't get this. I have been saying mean things about MS for many months now. Suddenly, everytime I say something bad about MS, it gets a "troll" rating.

If I say something bad about Linux, it gets a troll rating. If I say something bad about MS, it gets a troll rating.

The incentive is to talk NICE about different vendors and technologies. Why??????

Who is doing this? Show your puss, coward! I don't care if I have to waste some karma to expose you.

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