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Users turn to second-hand Microsoft licences

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Sales of second-hand Microsoft software licences have doubled month-on-month since the market was opened in November 2005, according to the Staffordshire start-up that spotted the opportunity in Microsoft's small print and Britain's insolvency laws.

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tuxchick2 ·
I'm glad to see that one country is allowing software license resale. I remember back in the late 90's there were all kinds of second-hand software stores. You could get all kinds of great stuff for cheap. I bought a lot of games, and got last year's database and spreadsheet apps for dirt cheap, instead of hundreds of dollars. Then overnight they all went away. I assume the BSA, MS, and other big players got together and bought some laws to drive them out of business, though I don't know for sure what happened.

Most businesses have huge investments in software licenses, but cannot count them as assets because they are forbidden to re-sell or transfer them. Just one more anti-competitive, anti-customer action that the DOJ and the mainstream press totally missed, and why do customers, especially businesses with staff lawyers, let them get away with it?

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