On Mon, 4 May 2009, David Vasek wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jochem Kossen wrote: > > > It appeared more people were confused by the text, and both Microsoft > > and Samsung have explained that the terms mean, that if you use a > > different operating system than Windows with this drive, you need to > > get the appropriate license to use said different operating system. > > Possibly, but you need to get the mentioned license _from Microsoft_, as is > written in the license: "...may require an additional license from Microsoft." > > > > "Hybrid Disk Drive products are licensed for use only on devices that > > > deploy the Windows VISTA Operating System as their principal operating > > > System. If you or any other party install(s) an operating system on the > > > computing device that is not Windows Vista, the use of this Hybrid Disk > > > Drive may require an additional license from Microsoft. For further > > > information, please contact Microsoft." > > It seems we are no longer buying hardware products, we are only buying > permissions to use them - almost everything contains some form of firmware or > microcode now. You never _own_ that code built-in in your hardware, you are > only a licensee, thus you are bound by the license to use the firmware. Crazy, > really crazy world! I hope that such licenses are illegal, illegal in every > country.
Maybe it's saying that if you use the Hybrid feature of the hardware, you _may_ require an additional license, i.e. if you flash the non-volatile memory. Weird. This is why I love laws, lawyers, etc. They just make these things possible. -- Daniel Bolgheroni <m...@dbolgheroni.eng.br> FEI - Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial http://www.dbolgheroni.eng.br/mykey ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) against HTML e-mail X / \ mQGiBEjsKN8RBACIeANsMaUPV5vlbI0B1WGElqhLXdyR941fInJesLFUV+QlJ1Xi qsmmCa2GTiz1SQm4g0N7FxOQeW42x9Iv0kg5vjwkZ7uC1LJDZlVvoThpnk007WYK h19X+fbpQkK1kjWDd7TNiebDdvRcvVFJybSfGsqmrw/qufZ67HffLb9T2wCgx7ml LjrFFlT3+18v6wy0T169DVsD/RU8fOfPwEK4Gc/BkfCB/JjHax2TYitMn9oNylYw VdkuyFoaCEU2GmGP1/R1uT5U3TsKa0vIVBIiDTAOyZKhLgMejNyagKn4PuLcMyqo CCV7uOPCuMsEFmXNDQekLhGpWlSD3vLoqr/mO0T867qZjIuQ9An58VLcX6LSdGtG 6yV7A/0fJ4fC2+RJWLmHPKb8sgNpjByt7NjaumAGVqPPtGu9M6indImBB0HB+S3O 7vM0pf6rzfE69D9zc0ySJJ3tCo/r4TdMrx/tx6wbz/7pyfsIRbsCG+87VxqInnEP cg0zlN749NwBouPa2UTYMxXsJuv0OmX3W7EZ3vgL9lQ1BWzZn7QRRGFuaWVsIEJv bGdoZXJvbmmIYAQTEQIAIAUCSOwo3wIbAwYLCQgHAwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheA AAoJEP423E9NZH/MPBMAmgNfL1njMlTBhhxiDdKsd6BLlcizAKCmVIP0jDarapBp j7FUQgJ3npAvS7kBDQRI7CjfEAQAl6exFKqLkBCjr8s5XoadLpvSFE5faif5l6q6 HcfKP2FFtUfSj46cvCLVYzip78KJjxGkksS36rrrKfgHH7z+2Oem+G5drtvMWmeA 14tFvJGWHKL1WR5P1fe593aaw8CHmiQxSkENyVN+Q8FvqUoZ5tPtGqVzlPmflU5K bcJphs8AAwUD/1CyyvbvMWNDPJLqZI1TiEkg3+2Kc67CFXhoS4DYCgObjnhA7GOO BB0PXHPMhtwqIhCQA0+u2YOstreW1UT+zY3ynQbc7bnHmCdRzEmCRLSqe44+nWkY QXD5tEOuMtAjJDQm7wQxRXA9EQouz4CLxz7uhEa5MJjoGdNkIqzDc/tCiEkEGBEC AAkFAkjsKN8CGwwACgkQ/jbcT01kf8yHNQCfV+eHlKqAwdPfnM9IxGiKotVXeEYA oKr5TGPxFG04Q3QnwX4+Acu78Svu =mJV8 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
