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  • From: tompoe <tompoe AT aether.raven.cxm>
  • To: Ed Lawson <elawson AT lawson-philpot.com>
  • Cc: <seul-edu AT seul.org>, <tompoe AT renonevada.net>, <stephen AT daukas.com>, <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>, <renotahoe-pm AT pm.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] Re: [seul-edu] Legal questions [was Re: They changed the site! ( was Re: [OS:N:] Donated PCs)
  • Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 19:33:30 -0700 (PDT)

Hi: Thank you for your input.

Tom Poe
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ed Lawson wrote:

> On Fri, 3 May 2002 10:00:17 -0700
> tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net> wrote:
>
> > Until they point to a specific law that states
> > unequivocally that there is a legal requirement, etc., their statement is
> > FALSE.
>
> Perhaps this type of logic get points in debate competition, but I doubt
> anywhere else.
> The issue is not whether there is a law somewhere "that states
> unequivocally". Don't even think laws tend to state anything unequivocally.
> That is why people go to Law School. The issue is what is required by the
> MS EULA. Read the EULA. I believe it says the software can only be used
> on the machine with which it was purchased. If the OS is upgraded, the
> original software license melts with the upgrade and you still only have
> one license and it must be used with the original machine.
>
> None of which means a person cannot donate a machine without an OS. I will
> leave to others to impute motives in making statements which imply the MS
> EULA requires the original licensed OS to go with a donated machine. The
> answer is yes it must if the machine is donated with the same or an upgrade
> version of the same MS OS on the machine when first purchased. MS assumes,
> naturally, that the donated computer is an Intel box and has a MS OS on it.
> Its statement makes sense when those assumptions are made and assuming
> people visiting the MS website are looking for information about Intel
> boxes with an MS OS is not irrational.
>
> What is irrational is the willingness of others to think the statments are
> ones of general application concerning donated computers and to repeat them
> as such.
>
> Ed Lawson
> BTW, I am a lawyer and I have some familiarity with the copyright laws and
> software licensing
>





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