Well you DON'T have to be a lawyer to know that M$ has NEVER refunded the lic fee
that their EULA says it will refund if you don't accept their tterms. And their
enforcement wing the BSA is notorious the world over for obtaining 'civil search
warrants' and using the states police to serve them. In the US they use the FBI
to assure that the 'civil search warrants' are executi1ed with out hinderence
by the licensee.
Even Judge Jackson left M$s 'per-processor' licensing clauses intact; he cited
the higher likely-hood of pirating of M$ code as justification.
So if you don't like it you had better start a POLITICAL process to change
them because M$ has the law on their side.
PeterB
p.s. I have refused to buy a 'btranded' PC since my last IBM PS/2; I simply will NOT
see my money go to M$ for stuff I don't use
7/17/2002 1:59:57 PM, James Mohr
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 20:10, Fast Info wrote:
I read somewhere on the web that by clicking on Accept when you start using a computer with MS system (apparently its called EULA), you agree to the fact that MS can ask you to remove any software from your system? This includes any other OS that you install after you receive your system. I am not sure about this but does that authorize MS to tell us to remove Linux from our dual-bootable system?
You should read the EULA yourself if you really want to know what it says. I would imagine that **theoretically** if you bought an OEM machine the EULA might say that the license is only valid if the purchased OS is the only one on the system. I think most of us would like to see the site that makes this claim. (Flame on!!!)
I seriously doubt that Microsoft could get away with *forcing* you to remove any software, but they can *ask* all they want. Besides *forcing** OEMs to include specific software on a system that the end user did not want was one of the key points in the anti-trust suit against Microsoft. I'm a geek, not a lawyer, but **no one** has the right to tell me what legally obtained software I installed on my system.
Regards,
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