[nsp] Is good to buy cisco refurbished equipment?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:45:22PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> On Tue May 20, 2003 at 10:27:47PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > Which is a stance that is contrary to european law.  So that only applies
> > to the US.
> So what happens if someone in the EU buys a 2nd hand router from the US?

Good question.  I have no idea.

The thing is that *in the EU*, a vendor can not prevent re-sale of
software licenses.  

That is: if you *sell* a software, the receiver *owns* it, and can 
re-sell it to third parties (assuming that he doesn't keep local copies, 
of course).  If you want to avoid that, you can lease the software, but 
this opens up lots of interesting liability clauses for the vendors 
(they actually have to make sure that it works).

gert
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