Re: [Sheflug] Software

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

I seem to remember a company in Germany doing something similar to
this - they'd buy Win98 onward for cash and sell it on again.
I also had a suspicion that M$ Deutschland had a few things to say.

Not too sure of the facts, but I think that the licenses are taylored
in such a way as to make this sort of business more trouble than it's
worth.

Baz

Will Newton writes:
 > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Robert Speed wrote:
 > 
 > > Not if they don't use it anymore...
 > > We've got boxes of DOS and Win3.1 disks sat in storage...
 > > And "theoretically" I believe that there should be no problem
 > > for someone to buy them from us...
 > > Except, the DOS disks do come in handy sometimes...
 > 
 > I was under the impression that as you don't buy software, you license it
 > (see Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988) you are bound by the terms of
 > the licence, and while you are free to sell the physical media for use as
 > coasters, you are not able to transfer the license to another user.
 > Basically, you can sell it, but the buyer can't use it. I think. :)
 > 
 > 
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