Kerry Brown wrote:

> Alias wrote:
>
>>Kerry Brown wrote:
>>
>>OEM Offiice product cannot be sold without installing it on a system.
>><<
>>Perhaps in your country this is true but I can buy Office OEMs with a
>>pretty MS box all day long without installing them on *anything*.
>
>
> You can here as well. That wasn't the point. The point was that technically
> this is against the agreement the OEM entered into with Microsoft. If
> Microsoft wanted to they could try to enforce this by a couple of different
> methods, 1) quit selling to OEMs who break the agreement or 2) sue the OEMs
> who break the agreement. The end user who purchases the software is doing
> nothing wrong in this case. Possibly the OEM is doing nothing wrong as well.
> To the best of my knowledge this particular agreement has never been tested
> in court. Personally as an OEM I abide by the agreement for the simple
> reason that I agreed to it. Obviously ethics differ among resellers.
>
> Kerry
>
>

When you consider that buying retail here is almost impossible, one
would think that the Spanish laws override the scammy EULA's, be they
for OEMs or end users.

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Alias

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