On Tuesday 09 April 2002 01:47 pm, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 17:12, David Herman wrote:
I'm curious what legal authority ms or any other agency has which allows them to go into your business and disrupt it just to see if you might be breaking thew law.
No legal authority; just the threat of yanking the right to use the software.
I guess this is becoming quite OT so I won't post further after this but... How can they prevent you from using software you purchased if they don't even have a legal right to confirm that its on your machine. (I seem to remember something about ms granting themselves audit rights in the eula for some version of nt but I may be wrong. But that wouldn't have anything to do w/ 98, etc.)
Of course, that could produce a lawsuit but MSoft has the canons to make any such lawsuit very expensive, however meritorious it is.
-- dh