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Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland

Posted by kdawson on from the blood-from-a-stone-middleman dept.

David Gerard writes "The Microsoft Certified Partner model is: an MCP buys contracts from Microsoft and sells them to businesses as a three-year timed contract, payable in annual installments. Iceland's economy has collapsed, so 1500 businesses have gone bankrupt and aren't paying the fees any more. But Microsoft has told the MCPs: 'Our deal was with you, not them. Pay up.' The MCPs that don't go bankrupt in turn are moving headlong to Free Software, taking most of the country with them. (Warning: link contains strong language and vivid imagery.)"

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  1. Re:This seems strangely familiar by DerekLyons · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not well versed in Icelandic law, so I have none. However, requiring someone to pay for a service they are unable to use and also banning them from transferring it, reselling it, or otherwise making use of something you sold them is unconscionable. You can't sell someone something for resale, then prevent them from reselling it.

    In other words, not having any actual knowledge... you'll make shit up and then present it as if it were reality rather than fantasy.
     
     

    That the contract doesn't specify what happens when a consumer goes bankrupt indicates that neither side considered it as well

    Few, if any, contracts between party A and party B specify what happens when B's customers go bankrupt - because the assumption under the law is that B is responsible for adhering to valid contracts freely entered into. There are many things not in contracts because of this, and other, underlying assumptions. (The same way that a loan contract between you and a bank does not give you a free pass because you lose your job.)
     
     

    the others that were mentioning force majeure may have a point.

    Nope. Like you, they have no idea what they are talking about and are making shit up. Force Majeure requires a significant and unpredictable external event - whatis called an Act Of God. An economic meltdown doesn't qualify because while unpredictable, courts recognize it as part of the natural business cycle.