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Otto Kekäläinen | 4 Jul 2012 15:46
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Re: Slashdot reports: First-sale doctrine upheld for software by the EU Court of Justice

Hello!

There was a court case in Finland years ago where the court confirmed,
that it is legal to resell the OEM Windows that came with your
computer and that MS cannot deny this right from consumers.

Subsequently all new computers with OEM Windows started to be shipped
without installation media, so in practice it is hard to sell the OEM
Windows, as there is no tanglible CD to put on a table at a flee
market etc.

Sorry, can't find any link to it now..

2012/7/4 Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild <repentinus <at> fsfe.org>:
> Greetings,
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/03/1245200/used-software-can-be-sold-says-eu-court-of-justice?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
>
> Discuss.
>
> Also, does someone have time to examine the decision? We might want a
> press release acclaiming the decision, as such a decision seems to
> have strengthened the people's right to share software.
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild
> FSFE Fellow (en) / FSFE ühinglane (et)
> <repentinus <at> fsfe.org>
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Sam Tuke | 27 Jul 2012 16:43
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Re: Slashdot reports: First-sale doctrine upheld for software by the EU Court of Justice

On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 16:46 +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Subsequently all new computers with OEM Windows started to be shipped
> without installation media, so in practice it is hard to sell the OEM
> Windows, as there is no tanglible CD to put on a table at a flee
> market etc. 

Presumably you can just (legally) re-sell the serial number? A friend of
mine just bought a copy of Win XP online as the computer repair shop
refused to fix his machine without one. The disk came sealed with a fake
hologram, the disk was blank, but the serial appeared valid. The repair
shop still wouldn't accept it, so he had to buy another one.

Pretty crazy. The law around resale is valuable information for the
public.

Best,

Sam.
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On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 16:46 +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Subsequently all new computers with OEM Windows started to be shipped
> without installation media, so in practice it is hard to sell the OEM
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