[X4U] Boot Camp [A]

[Stroller]

On 9 Aug 2006, at 16:26, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> At 3:15 PM +0100, 8/9/06, Stroller wrote:
>
>> The title "Original Equipment Manufacturer" does not make a  
>> contract between you & Microsoft, prohibiting you as an end-user  
>> from installing the OEM version. Microsoft wrote this long license  
>> that says "well, it's ok, end-users can buy this as long as they  
>> buy a USB cable to go with it" and my speculation is that not only  
>> is it legal to follow the letter of this license, but Microsoft  
>> knew what they intended with that license and there's no  
>> "immorality" or "unscrupulousness" in following it to the letter,  
>> either.
>
> 'Tis interesting that you like to read and interpret contracts as  
> fits your wants. There is nothing in the license that says anything  
> about USB cables or small additional hardware purchase along with  
> or anything of that type. It does say that it is a license between  
> Microsoft and the OEM. The definition of OEM is defined and it is  
> not someone who installs a USB cable or hard drive.

Please give citations you whiny little girl.

I've already quoted:

    ...This End-User
    License Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you
    ... and the manufacturer ("Manufacturer") of the ... computer
    system component ("HARDWARE") with which you acquired the Microsoft
    software product(s) identified above ("SOFTWARE").

a computer system component can easily mean a USB cable or hard drive

Put up, or shut up. Face it you're wrong, and crying about it doesn't  
make any difference unless you can prove it.

> ... I could equally feel that the GPL license need not be honored  
> since the owners have no desire to make real money from their work  
> so my selling their work does not infringe on their making money.  
> They don't lose out when I sell my product that has their code in it.

Heh. I thought of that one before I posted, but it's irrelevant. An  
end-user buying an OEM copy of Windows is not "dishonoring" any  
contract.

You're wrong and you've yet to even TRY to prove otherwise.

Stroller.