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Microsoft: You Need Permission to Sell Our Software
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."
Motherfuckers
Sons a bitches
I like to fuck
Old gray witches.
Beotch you
Beotch me
Beotch my big fat dick
Ahhh yeah.
Motherfucker.
You so cool.
what in the holy hell happened to the first sale doctrine?First Sale
F$ck off.
This CNN article quite well lays out Microfts arguments why first sale doesn't apply in this case. Interesting read!
The liscense said that you have permission to put windows on your computer, not on your neighbor's computer.
g to the oatse
c to the izzex
FIRSTUS POSTUS, BEEOTCHAE!
Kneel down and worship my turgid effluence!
pleaase?!!
mom says I'm 'l33t!
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.)
Table-ized A.I.
Whattsa matter? Can't Mommy protect you from the big bad mean world???
You don't like the rules of this so-called area? Why'd you buy the house in the first place? Shoulda moved to Mommy-land. Every house is rosey-pink and comes with a brand-spanking new Mommy to spoon feed you pablum, burp you and wipe your little ass.
I mean you can't be saying that there's only one town in the whole world are you? That would sound kinda like the argument that MS has a monopoly on OS's. How could this be true when all you commie nasal flower sex whores spend all your free time plunking out Linux security bug fixes?
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.
Table-ized A.I.
Wow, you are almost as dumb as a kaffir for spewing such bullshit. Back to your shack, baboon!
This is cute. So the basic point is that they bought a non-transferrable license to use Microsoft software and they are now looking to sell it as an item. Well, the license was for their company usage, and as they are selling a division of their company, they cannot ignore the terms of the agreement. Why is this titled as: Microsoft interferes with company?
The licensing agreement isn't transferable. Too bad. These are not people we are talking about, this is not retail we are talking about.
Wookies don't live on Endor so feel free to moderate my posts +6, bite of reality.