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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (67095)4/11/2002 3:16:58 PM
From: Dave  Respond to of 74651
 
Charles, excellent post.

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that within six months Microsoft will add language to the software licenses it uses for applications to require that they be run only on machines with a valid Windows license.

As a monopoly, what will stop them from doing so?

I'll tell you what would prevent them from doing so: ANTITRUST LAW. But if Dubya's DoJ and Microsoft succeed in subverting the administration of that law, then all bets are off until the next prolonged antitrust trial, some time in the next administration. And that between-trials period of unfettered monopolizing is precisely what Microsoft and its ethically challenged shareholders are counting on.

Dave



To: Charles Tutt who wrote (67095)4/11/2002 4:51:51 PM
From: dybdahl  Respond to of 74651
 
In most of Europe, such a change would not have any effect. Remember, that there is a legal, european second hand market for Microsoft Windows OEM licenses, something that is a direct violation of Microsofts license terms.


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