[Am-info] MS claims KMart can't transfer licenses in sale of BlueLight.com

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.10.30 01:26 AM, Gene Gaines typed: ============

>If Microsoft and other software vendors are allowed to cancel licenses
>upon the sale of companies, what does this do to the value of companies
>-- or parts of companies -- that go on the block? Is it conscionable for
>licenses to be cancelled upon transfer of ownership of equipment or
>companies?

   If Microsoft doesn't back down, this is going to kill them. No company 
would dare invest that much money into something that won't transfer and 
(as time is starting to prove) can be revoked at any time for any reason 
by the publisher. Put a fork in 'em...



======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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