Journal Microsoft: You Need Permission to Sell Our Software

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 29, @03:02PM
from the signed-permission-slip-from-mom dept.

IEEEmember writes "Microsoft has objected to the sale of bankrupt KMart's Bluelight.com Internet unit to United Online. Microsoft's objection to the sale is based on the non-transferability of software licenses protected by copyright law according to the Reuters story on Yahoo! News. This action by Microsoft should serve as a warning to any corporation that has a significant investment in Microsoft licenses. Dependency on Microsoft licenses may grant Microsoft the ability to veto your business decisions."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/1853202&mode=thread&tid=109