[CLUE-Talk] MS now apparently thinks that a computer hardware and OS are a single unit

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Match Grun (match at dimensional.com) wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:09:31 -0600
> BOF <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This "legal requirement" (which I would like to know the basis for, 
> > other than MS saying it is one) probably explains why the newer 
> > computers don't come with a complete OS, just some "recovery CD" --- 
> > even though the consumer gets charged full price for the OS. But to 
> > translate this to car terms, I read this as "if I buy a car, I have to 
> > keep using the original brand tires and batteries for the life of the 
> > car, and then unless it has the original engine, battery and tires, I 
> > can't donate it to anyone."
> > 
> 
> I view this as: Only the original purchaser of the car is allowed to drive it!!!

This is exactly the correct analogy.  And it is nothing to laugh at.  If
Microsoft and other software scoundrels begin to really enforce this
type of nonsense, and it suceeds, you will be soon signing something like
this when you buy a car!  This is a horrible affront to a customer's
rights.  We need to reign these companies in.  

Tim
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