Tech Law

Gordon Dick of Edinburgh, Scotland sued spammer Transcom Internet Services Ltd. in small claims court and won a judgment of 750 pounds (euro1,100, US$1,445) in damages and 619 pounds (euro906, US$1,190) in court costs. ”Some people just delete and ignore it,” Dick told The Associated Press. ”But if someone was throwing stones through your [...]

This applies to Windows Vista Ultimate and Window Vista Business only - no other versions of Vista. If Vista Ultimate or Vista Business came with your computer - OR you bought the full retail version of those (NOT an upgrade version), OR your organization has a Volume License Agreement using one of those versions [...]

Thanks to Tim Hodkinson for the link that led to this post. There’s more problems to the Vista EULA than meet the eye - and Microsoft has a very good chance of not being able to enforce it in both Washington state and the state of Maryland. Mark Rasch is a former head [...]

If you are considering adopting Windows Vista in your business, you may want to have your lawyer examine the license to see if it conflicts with any of your existing contracts. Dan Shearer explains why:
Contracts common in certain industries cut across the Vista licence.
The Vista licence embodies technical surprises that may contradict your clients’ [...]

Michael Geist writes this critique of Vista’s far more onerous licensing terms - he is a Canadian law professor and an expert in Internet law.
With Microsoft’s Vista set to hit stores tomorrow, my weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) looks at the legal and technical fine print behind the operating system upgrade. [...]

One of my hot buttons is the whole Digital Rights Management (DRM) - RIAA - copyright scene. The RIAA’s ‘head in the sand’ avoidance of the new reality of the digital age, and its willingness to continue to punish not only its customers, but also its artists, makes me see red. No one [...]

Groklaw is posting the recent filings in SCO v. Novell, and Novell is stating:
For SCO, bankruptcy is inevitable; it characterizes its assets as merely those “remaining” and does not rebut Novell’s arguments that its bankruptcy is imminent.
Groklaw restates:
Imminent. Inevitable. Bankruptcy.
(Emphasis mine.)
Hurray!!! McBride’s mommy should have spanked him when he began using these [...]