-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/11 14:22 , [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Josh Smift wrote: > >> d> there is a principal in English Common Law (which is the foundation for >> d> much of western law) called First Sale, which says that once you sell >> d> something to someone else you no longer can dictate how it is used. >> >> Yeah, but the idea here is that you aren't buying the hardware, you're >> buying a license to use the hardware under certain terms. >> >> This is a somewhat new thing, but it's not just "the last few years" -- >> license agreements are pretty well established law at this point, aren't >> they? >> >> You may not like them (I don't particularly), but I think we're stuck with >> them for now. > > such things have existed for a long time, but according to the courts they > have to be structred very clearly as such, and such contracts impose > obligations on the real owners of the devices (things like liability, > disposal, etc)
Yeh, I seem to recall the Autodesk case was a matter of "fine, Autodesk --- but now you have to live up to your legal liabilities." A sword cutting both ways, with Autodesk left to decide whether it was worth it to press their claim. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] kf8nh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1eyPEACgkQIn7hlCsL25Xc+QCfW/mHVao7U8G4Fc9RhHDGm8gY Tz0AoKhVYHypIiAwGO4brvDq7FWYAjTv =fef2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
