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Story: UK firm sells second-hand Microsoft licences

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Posted by: Arturas Juras (Sunday 13 November 2005, 4:27 PM)

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How is the software different from the hardware? It takes some time and money to make one or the other, how much would it cost 1000 units of each ready for sale? I think the difference is very obvious. So the software developers are automatically better off. Why are they suppose to be privileged by the law, by being able to make their products unresellable… Why the law should deny us the right to sell anything we legally purchase…

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