[ale] Finding desktops, laptops and hardware in Atlanat
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Mar 13 16:00:29 EST 2006
Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I'm not involved on either end of such transfers, so I have no horse in
> that race. But, I do know that in contract law, ambiguity counts
> against the author.
I do know that in contract law, generally, the one with the largest
wallet wins.
> In any case, as a general rule, when buying computers off the used
> market, drives need to be nuked and paved over no matter what, and if
> the EULA language for any software you get looks anything like this,
> where the right of transfer is limited to a certain number of times, you
> have to assume that it's not legal to use the software.
>
> Which is a good reason to not become dependent on it in the first place.
Wholeheartedly agreed.
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Until later, Geoffrey
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