Windows refund: stymied

[Matthew Rice]

Ian Goldberg <linux-cOjNTMaGA5U at public.gmane.org> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:43:33PM -0400, Herb Richter wrote:
> > BTW, I see a very interesting situation here:  if in fact the two
> > contracts are separate and the first cannot bind the buyer to agree to
> > the second; can the buyer end up with a "legal" instance of the OS without
> > being obligated by the eula?
> 
> As far as I understand, this is never possible.  You can do all the
> tricks you like to avoid agreeing to the EULA, but since that's the
> document which grants you the permission you need to *copy the software
> from the hard disk to the computer's memory*, you'd no longer be allowed
> to do that.

Ian,

Read that article on the California guy closer.  He covers this.  He didn't
even go to court with a copy of the EULA [although he could have gotten it
elsewhere] and he still won.

Judges are human, too ;)
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