Software has become a term applied to a lot of things. You still have to read
the license to understand the difference between the generic term and the
specifics of a published edition. Even open software is licensed.
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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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message What Alias is getting at is that all web sites, and stores, sell you software.
Don't they all have software departments, T.V. departments, appliance
departments etc.
Yet after they have sold you the "software", they try to tell you that you have
bought a license. Well, people DID NOT buy it in the license department - did
they?
Based upon that fact, and that even Microsoft offers you software downloads
(not license downloads) I think I also am going to begin to state that I OWN
the "software". The license that was in the package is ancillary to the fact of
my purchase, and I don't really have to even read it.
The software is mine, whether I have a license or not!
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Regards,
Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
I have a degree in English from the University of Texas Arlington and my
comprehension skills are fine. If you install software without reading through
the EULA then the problem is not comprehension, but reading at all.
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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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If you can read the website, you can read the EULA. If you just click
through it during an install, that's your issue.
Huh? I didn't say anything about reading or clicking through the scammy EULA,
now did I, sport? Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Is English not
your first language? The web sites I was referring to and I made it clear by
typing *computer web sites" say *software*, not "licences". Yaknow, the ones
that sell Microsoft *Software*?
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Alias
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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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You were sold the licenses, not the software.
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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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We know about the licencing scam. It's a scam. It's highway robbery. EVERY
computer web site says "software", not "licences".
Alias