Re: Autodesk Lawsuit - Non-Transferable Licenses

From: <Christopher>
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 21:42:00 EDT

On Sep 14, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Paul Bowers wrote:

> <<"A lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court (US District Court for
> the
> Western Washington District C07-1189 JLR) that alleges Autodesk, Inc
> maker of the industry standard AutoCAD software and their attorney
> Andrew S. Mackay have devised an illegal scheme to have used copies of
> their software removed from the eBay site using the Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act. Finally someone decided that non-transferable licenses
> must be stopped.">>

Someone's finally started to realize that it's worthwhile suing software companies. Maybe the next step is some accountability for bugs and lousy service.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=W1Zu2e40iZaShBTG7f9vtyplZ6Gh6zJgsZz_Xy0UjO6mncbNDUxiC6q4BEYJL7XiHQdOXm5z_xv5Iw">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

1864)
<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Fri Sep 14 21:42:00 2007