Re: Look for second hand licences for Toad 7.2.0.0 and PowerAMC 8.0.1.2.7.5

On 13 Feb 2002 13:06:57 GMT, ckh - Too Much SPAM wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:10:26, "Loic Gauthier" <l.gouthiere_at_online.fr>
>wrote:
>
>> > Niall Litchfield wrote:
>> >
>> > > Interesting. I'd alsoways understood that contract terms such as
>> > >
>> > > "<vendor> hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to
>> <use
>> > > software>" were legally binding. I'd be interested to see the precedent
>> and
>> > > wonder why no-one has challenged MS on this.
>>
>
>Um,
>
>what if a company sells itself and all it's assets including the
>Oracle license to another company. Does it then have buy new
>licenses?
>
>What if the company sells just a division to another company, does the
>software license go with the division or is it somehow magically stuck
>with the original parent company?
>
>What if the company outsources their IT operations, does the software
>license go, stay, or vanish? The work is still being done for the
>original company, the work is run by another entity, was there a
>transfer or not?
>
>What if a company just changes its name and moves down the street, is
>it the same company? What if they lie?
>
>The "law" has to address these scenarios and more.

What if there REALLY IS a Santa Claus?
The EULA is the law. Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 13:33:38 CET