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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (47467)	7/3/2000 9:39:03 PM
From: Michael Do	Read Replies (3) of 74651

>Message #47467 from Norm Trolson at Jul 3, 2000 6:32 PM mozek, To use the car analogy, why couldn't someone sell him the Windows98 software off of a defunct machine like someone parting out a vehicle? Although they must exist, I cannot think of another example of tying individual components of a device to that specific device for the life of the component. It is economically inefficient if nothing else. The capitalistic niche filled by the used-parts industry is absent in this case. These are the type of "non-marketforces" manipulations which has them under suspicion. Cheers, Norm < Norm, To use the car analogy, when you buy the vehicle, you own the vehicle and all the components in it. But if you try to sell the software in the car engine control that make the engine run and all you got to be a very wealthy man because you will have an army of lawyers go after you that MSFT lawyers look pale in comparision. The intellecture property is licensed and not sell in most normal case. Mike

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