Selling my vs.net 2002/2003. What do I need to know? License issues?

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Allen - 26 Aug 2003 04:57 GMT

I recently jumped in and just bought up the full universal
subscription to MSDN which rendered my vs.net 2002 (full) and 2003
(upgrade) useless. I paid good money for them though so I'd like to
sell my old vs.net 2002/2003 to someone else (I'm thinking ebay or
something). Do I face any legal hurdles to doing this? I registered
it as mine with Microsoft, how do I unregister?

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Frans Bouma - 26 Aug 2003 09:03 GMT

Allen <none@none.com> wrote in news:sbmlkvgs40e0n54kjpi0digre98lu4u4go@
4ax.com:

> I recently jumped in and just bought up the full universal
> subscription to MSDN which rendered my vs.net 2002 (full) and 2003
> (upgrade) useless. I paid good money for them though so I'd like to
> sell my old vs.net 2002/2003 to someone else (I'm thinking ebay or
> something). Do I face any legal hurdles to doing this? I registered
> it as mine with Microsoft, how do I unregister?

     I don't know where you live, but in Europe you can re-sell the
license to someone else without any worries. After all, you paid for a
license, if you re-sell the license to someone else, that person is then
ligitimately owner of the license, not you.

     Most MS licenses / EULA's however come with texts that you can't
resell the goods. But I really doubt such a clause can be upheld in court.
Nevertheless, registering software is for marketing purposes. If you sell
your license to someone else, no-one will know.

     FB

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Ryan Plant - 26 Aug 2003 16:13 GMT

In most EULAs that I have been demented enough to read it
does give the one time concession to transfer the
software with all accompanying materials to the
tranferee. This can be done legally as long as you
completely uninstall the software from your machine(s).
Read the EULAs that came with the product and I think
you'll see what I am talking about. I think you won't
run into any legal hurdles but it might be difficult for
buyers on E-bay who are very wary of opened software. It
is quite common for E-bay to cancel and remove auctions
that it suspects piracy.

Hope this give some more insight.

~RP

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Allen - 27 Aug 2003 03:00 GMT

Thank you both. That gives me a least a bit of an idea and some
perspective. Yea, I can understand why people on ebay would be a bit
cautious. I'll give it a shot though. I kept all the materials and
such so hopefully I can get some of my investment back. :-)

thanks!
Allen

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