Additional resources re MicrosoftIssuesIllegalToRemoveWindows

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Resources

• First Sale and US Copyright Laws Regarding Software -- a link of links, some listed below
• Sell your copy of Windows!
• US Court says buyers can unbundle EULA-covered software
• Softman v. Adobe: What it Means for the Rest of Us; Thursday, November 22, 2001; Don Marti
• Softman vs. Adobe decision (full) -- link didn't work for me when I tried it (from the previous article)
• MS disappears claim that Windows is legal requirement; John Lettice; 03/05/2002 at 14:22 GMT -- a softening in the MS claim, and maybe in Lettice's rhetoric -- but he mentions the same thing that is hardening my thinking -- why can't I unbundle the software like I can any other piece of the computer (or a car?)

My (latest) opinion (IANAL): Absent a contractual requirement, the software should be unbundleable (to make up a word). Two things:

• when (i.e., which version of Windows) did a contractual requirement become part of the EULA, and
• if such a requirement is now part of the EULA, is it legal / enforceable? (Will it be upheld by the courts? -- I'd have to go back and follow some of the listed links, but hasn't the requirement already been struck down in some cases, like Softman v. Adobe?)

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• RandyKramer - 02 May 2002
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