Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Sep 2009 16:09 UTC
A very simple question for you. How often have you resold software that you legally purchased? Often enough, right? Well, if it's up to Autodesk, the company behind AutoCAD, you will no longer be allowed to resell your software. Update: As it turns out, the matter has already been resolved: Autodesk lost. A win for all of us.
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If AutoDesk's license forbad the resale of the license it would be contrary to the whole tiered wholesale / retail model, so it is a clause they could never hold water. In other words, you would only ever be able to buy the license directly from them because anyone reselling it - ie. resellers - would be breeching the terms of the license. Or is that bit a little too hard for people to understand?
What you are again trying to misrepresent is what the "Apple fanatics" believe is the product you are purchasing, which is the LICENSE. I happen to agree that you should be able to resell software licences that you buy, as you can resell any other product you purchase. You bought the license fair and square, so you can do with that license whatever you please. Sell it, gift it, use it for toilet paper for all I care. That is NOT the issue in the Pystar case and you very well know it - but again you choose to twist words and meanings to your own end.
The issue in the Pystar case is that there is a restriction in that license that is not in any way contrary to accepted distribution models, that was imposed by the company who spent their time and money developing the product, that Pystar is openly and defiantly breeching. Pystar, like everyone else, can choose whether they like the terms of the license and therefore use the product, or not like the terms and return the product for a refund. They, however, choose to not like the terms of the license but still use the product. They can resell copies they have purchased all they please, there is no court anywhere that will ever uphold anything other than that because it challenges the whole tiered wholesale / retail model. If they don't like that license and believe they have legal grounds to challenge it, by all means challenge it, but in the mean time they should not be breeching it because until it has been challenged and deemed to be illegal it should stand.
It is those who hold on to their childish belief that it is their right to override the rights of others who have the problem here, not the "Apple fanatics"...