Re: Re-selling product

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 12/02/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 19:02:50 GMT

In article <OAL3eVhmCHA.2300@tkmsftngp07>, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.yahoo.com> wrote:
>Okay; I've never ever ever seen anything like that. At the moment, the
>product belongs to the purchaser and I can't see any reason he/she can't do
>what he/she likes with it.

With software, the product doesn't belong to the purchaser. A licence to use
the product belongs to the purchaser. Remember, the 'product' in this case is
the set of ones and zeroes that makes up Windows - if the purchaser "owned"
the product, they would be legally allowed to do anything with that product,
for instance by hacking an XP Home into an XP Pro (remember those tools to
turn NT WS into NT Server by just changing registry entries?).

This is why licences come up, to limit the use of software.

Alun.
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