> The major OEMs will say "OK, then you must return the computer," and > you have no option but to comply. This is true for the USA.
192 sovereign countries exist with differing laws. Licenses I've seen from usually USA companies in Europe over decades have often seemed to contravene local law. USA allows more restrictions I believe: reverse engineering & unbundling of soft+hardware bundles etc is OK in Europe I think. A British appeals court test case in '80s ruled against NCP: Conditions available after purchase are void. One would need an M$ licence to run M$, but if it held clauses that eg forbade running under emulation, or on replacement hardware, those could contravene some local law & if so be void. M$ was heavily fined by European court a while back (Search with "Microsoft convicted monopolist") I woudn't expect happy compliance. Reality: XP purchased with a Toshiba laptop runs native, but fails on virtualbox, on the same laptop. I believe XP is crippled to only run on Toshiba, & vbox presents too clean/generic an environment ;-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
