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mayayana
Ok. I repent, with sackcloth and ashes.
The Vista license also says that you can't have
another person using your PC at the same time you
use it. [section 2b] (I hope you don't have kids.)
And it says, "You may not work around any technical
limitations in the software." [section 8] That could be
construed to include trying to get Vista working via
tweaking.
You may as well just turn yourself in to the authorities
now.![Smile :) :)](/styles/default/custom/smilies/smile.gif)
The .Net license forbids publishing benchmarks. (That
is, it forbids telling others exactly how slow .Net is.)
EULA's in general are a running joke and most of them
are probably, themselves, illegal in that they restrict
beyond the rights of the copyright holders.
According to First Sale Doctrine
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_sale_doctrine) Microsoft
has no right to limit reselling or giving away a copy of
Windows. But even with the full version they claim a
right to limit the resale to only 1 time.
Recently a Sony spokesman claimed that people who
make a copy of their own CD, for their own purposes,
are stealing and should have to pay for that copy:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071002-sony-bmgs-chief-anti-piracy-la
wyer-copying-music-you-own-is-stealing.html
So on one side there are companies like Sony and
Microsoft that are trying to grab all they can. On the
other side are people downloading copyrighted
material illegally. They're both trying to exploit an
ambiguity created by the new digital medium. Eventually
it should all get sorted out. In the meantime, Product
Activation is protecting Microsoft's *claims*, not their
rights. I'm often surprised by how many people
vehemently defend anything that MS - or any other
company - puts into their EULA as being "legal".
However, my frustration as a consumer remains.
The Vista license also says that you can't have
another person using your PC at the same time you
use it. [section 2b] (I hope you don't have kids.)
And it says, "You may not work around any technical
limitations in the software." [section 8] That could be
construed to include trying to get Vista working via
tweaking.
You may as well just turn yourself in to the authorities
now.
![Smile :) :)](/styles/default/custom/smilies/smile.gif)
The .Net license forbids publishing benchmarks. (That
is, it forbids telling others exactly how slow .Net is.)
EULA's in general are a running joke and most of them
are probably, themselves, illegal in that they restrict
beyond the rights of the copyright holders.
According to First Sale Doctrine
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_sale_doctrine) Microsoft
has no right to limit reselling or giving away a copy of
Windows. But even with the full version they claim a
right to limit the resale to only 1 time.
Recently a Sony spokesman claimed that people who
make a copy of their own CD, for their own purposes,
are stealing and should have to pay for that copy:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071002-sony-bmgs-chief-anti-piracy-la
wyer-copying-music-you-own-is-stealing.html
So on one side there are companies like Sony and
Microsoft that are trying to grab all they can. On the
other side are people downloading copyrighted
material illegally. They're both trying to exploit an
ambiguity created by the new digital medium. Eventually
it should all get sorted out. In the meantime, Product
Activation is protecting Microsoft's *claims*, not their
rights. I'm often surprised by how many people
vehemently defend anything that MS - or any other
company - puts into their EULA as being "legal".