Hello! There was a court case in Finland years ago where the court confirmed, that it is legal to resell the OEM Windows that came with your computer and that MS cannot deny this right from consumers.
Subsequently all new computers with OEM Windows started to be shipped without installation media, so in practice it is hard to sell the OEM Windows, as there is no tanglible CD to put on a table at a flee market etc. Sorry, can't find any link to it now.. 2012/7/4 Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild <[email protected]>: > Greetings, > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/03/1245200/used-software-can-be-sold-says-eu-court-of-justice?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29 > > Discuss. > > Also, does someone have time to examine the decision? We might want a > press release acclaiming the decision, as such a decision seems to > have strengthened the people's right to share software. > > > Cheers, > -- > Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild > FSFE Fellow (en) / FSFE ühinglane (et) > <[email protected]> > <https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus> > <http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/> > > P.S. I hope all the recipients feel concerned about the decision, and > are the right people to consider the implications. > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion -- Otto Kekäläinen [] [email protected] Finnish Team Coordinator [][][] GPG/PGP 0xB7F7E4E1 Free Software Foundation Europe || +358 44 566 2204 http://www.fsfe.org/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
