[Klug-general] How rude!

[Mike Evans]

On 18/07/11 11:16, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> I've just installed some windoze software (including the Access 2010
> runtime) to my VirtualBox-hosted XP and it popped a very bald message
> 'This software will not run on a virtual machine'.
>

I suppose they can write what they like in the terms of use, which 
effectively becomes part of the contract.  However it seems to me that 
if you bought the software (or otherwise obtained it legally) and are 
not using it in some way that violates the single user principle it was 
sold for, it should be for you to decide whether the machine you run it 
on is virtual, physical or phantasmagorical.

Maybe the EU will take that view also in time and those Microsoft people 
will find themselves paying another heavy fine.