[Info-vax] Regarding VMS on a VAX. Just curious...

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>In article <rdqdda$31h$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>Dorsey) writes: 
>
>>  <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> >A software license is largely a legal concept. Licence terms, and the thing=
>> >s which can legally be done with the software, may vary for the same produc=
>> >t in different jurisdictions. Sometimes the courts (try to) overrule what t=
>> >he vendor licences want to enforce.=20
>> 
>> Right.  So if you were to get a court order from a judge permitting the 
>> transfer of PAKs and overruling the line in the contract on the PAK that
>> prohibits it, the vax licensing problems would go away.
>> 
>> And my suspicion is that if one were to take HPE to small claims court 
>> requesting invalidation of that line, that HPE would likely not even send
>> a representative because they don't really care about the vax product.
>> 
>> But until someone actually does that, we have to abide by the rules in
>> the contract.
>
>Right.  And even if a court did rule that way, it would probably apply 
>only to the person who went to court.

Not in the US, where we have a common law system and where that decision can
be treated as a precident.  Mind you, it's not that hard to overturn a weak
precident like that, but my sneaking suspicion is that HPE would have no real
interest in doing so.

This may not be the case in Germany... I know it certainly is not in France.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."