XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: gordonbparker@yahoo.com   
      
   On 18/11/2010 02:00, Robert Kent wrote:   
      
   >   
   > You have to. Because that is the only thing giving you permission to use the   
   > software.   
   >   
      
   But MS licensing, especially OEM licensing is bordering on the illegal,   
   certainly in the UK.   
      
   The OEM licence states that you cannot move it to another computer.   
   Fine. However, MS has decided that if the original licensee changes the   
   MOTHERBOARD, and the motherboard ONLY,then that, in the eyes of MS, is a   
   new computer. Even that would be fine IF in the OEM licence terms, it   
   spelt that out. However, there is NO mention of motherboards WHATSOEVER   
   in the OEM END USER licence agreement.   
   So effectively MS say "here's the licence between you and me that YOU   
   agreed to. Oh. You want to change what? The motherboard? Well actually   
   you can't because there is an agreement between me and your VENDOR,   
   which you have neither seen nor agreed to, that says you can't"   
   In the UK that comes under Unfair Contract Terms and as such is   
   actionable. And MS know that.   
      
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