IE7 May Be Illegal

23/10/2006 - 20:44 por Pe | Informe spam
IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the history
of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

Now, this may seem logical from an anti piracy standpoint as a monopolist.
But ask yourself, if you would agree to validate every piece of MS software
when you installed it against every other piece of software you own
including the OS.

Given the global legal punishment that was meted out on MS for insisting
that IE "could not be separated from the OS" in its drive to kill off
competition, this is quite a randy, flirtatious thumb to the courts of the
world.

Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself
from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.

Add DRM to the picture and you see where MS is headed, use their tools to
do anything and you will be quite the licensee indeed.
As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.

Its really a great indication of the direction of the industry when new
products are really just stalking horses for more legal entanglement.


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#1 Dave B.
23/10/2006 - 20:51 | Informe spam
This is not the first piece of software to do that, Defender does it, the
Shared Computer Toolkit does it, and there are more, why all of a sudden is
this an issue for you?

"Pe" wrote in message
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IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the history
of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

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#2 Dave B.
23/10/2006 - 20:51 | Informe spam
This is not the first piece of software to do that, Defender does it, the
Shared Computer Toolkit does it, and there are more, why all of a sudden is
this an issue for you?

"Pe" wrote in message
news:%
IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the history
of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

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#3 Frankster
23/10/2006 - 20:53 | Informe spam
Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself
from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.



Yep. You are right. MS would have to give your money back for the purchase
price of IE7!

-Frank
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#4 Frankster
23/10/2006 - 20:53 | Informe spam
Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself
from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.



Yep. You are right. MS would have to give your money back for the purchase
price of IE7!

-Frank
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#5 Gordon
23/10/2006 - 20:55 | Informe spam
Pe wrote:


As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.



Oh no it's not - not for the discerning it's not.


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