[dundee] Half Life 2

[Arron M Finnon]

not sure you would have much shout under the trade description act,
however they maybe some weight under the formation of contract.  Now i
couldn't and wouldn't give you legal advice, but if you think back to
our time in the law stint.  

A contract, which is what happened when you purchased the software,
there has to be a meeting of the minds, namely you purchased the goods
under a certain condition that you understood.  So if i said to you i
will sell you a vehicle, and you thought i meant a car, and i sell you a
van then the contract is null in void, due to the fact that when you
made the mental decision to purchase, you and i had no common
understanding of what the product will be.  However in the same vein
it's going to be quite hard to argue, that firstly the product is not
what you thought you where buying, because in essence it is.  The issue
is with terms that have been attached, to what legally speaking is their
intellectual property, they may also be able to argue that you don't
physically own their software, but you are licensed to use their
software. In the same way that apple OS's is licensed to a single apple
labelled machine (which is why if you use a virtual machine, or squeeze
it on to AMD, or Intel machines your in breach of license, and why apple
machines all have an apple logo on it, well that and marketing, brand
awareness, blar blar blar, first rate marketing second rate products,
opps that just slipped out).

I don't think you would have much joy in pursuing a case, but like i say
this isn't sherrif finux's court and i don't offer legal advice.  All
this to me is the point of campaigning why A) they should be selling
SAAS, which would mean you could complain about the level of service you
have received, and it not meeting your expectation at the time of
purchase, B) intellectually property should only be extended to artistic
works, not computing processes.  In a fair world, you want to be able to
buy software, and use it for a purpose you feel it is fit for, hang on
isn't that the whole FSF point.

Anyway, i imagine this has been as useful as a having driving cloves for
your feet.

f1Nux not driving with his feet, since monday night