I said that not having returned it was a naughty, and followed that with the indication that intent not to return it could possibly be deemed theft.
same as indicating that killing somebody could be manslaughter, or murder You'll find lots of books detailing similar possibilities in the law section of many libraries. --------- My point about the difference between installer and somebody who just uses the installed product is that - if you didn't install the product then you may not have even been presented with the licence conditions, let alone asked to agree to abide by them. And .. re destroying CD's I worked for an organisation that (back in the pre-windows days) disposed of several hundred copies of the DOS manuals, complete with the printed licence in each binder - leaving themselves without any physical evidence that they had the licences for the installed copies - Could have been fun if they had been audited JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kylde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:54 PM Subject: was Re: Which is more stable Win98, SE or ME? > > Having no intention to return the property is getting to be theft > > now who said I had no intention of returning :) ? > > > That leads to questions regarding the rights, and limitations imposed > > on a user who did not do the install! > > lost me there as I *did* do the initial install (on a works machine at > home that was subsequently wiped and returned to work)? Regardless, moot > point, the cd is merely gathering dust on a shelf, my ex-employer is > aware of where it is and I have already offered to return the cd to them > (no reply, I hazard a guess it's simply not worth the pennies involved > in the return to them, after all we destroyed 100's of NT4/W2K cd's > every day as a matter of course on rollouts, where the end-users only > ever got images of the installed OS, not the install cd's for that OS, > as you say thye purchased a licence, not a cd) > > > > -- > Regards > > Kylde > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://winhome.wavijo.com/ > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
