2 x 8 lane dongle for sale ?

The only way the license can be legally transferred is if someone buys your business. They cannot be transferred separately.

Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> hi i have 2 dongle for 8 lane for microsoft RMS i went out of bussines can

Imagine if all of the assets your company bought could not be touched by a liquidator/creditor like RMS. Nobody would ever get a loan. This is a BS part of the licensing agreement that I would ignore, quite frankly. I think you could at least make an argument that the restriction is unreasonable, and possibly even illegal in your jurisdiction.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has virtually unlimited legal $, so the risk is yours to decide...

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We are on our 3rd POS program in 12 years and I believe our last with Microsoft. None of the other software companies allowed us to sell or transfer our used software. I don't know of any commercial site license software that let's you do this. One company we looked at offered to charge us a transfer license fee on a used system we were considering. Turned out that fee was more than RMS.

Mark S.

"Jas> Imagine if all of the assets your company bought could not be touched by a

I know it's not legally binding to prohibit the resale of software in my jurisdiction in the Caribbean (as long as it is installed on a computer). MS can stuff that part of the EULA for me... I just can't resell it back to the US I guess.

From experience I can name at least 9 countries where they can't prevent it.

Someone should address this in the US. That practice should be illegal. What other asset type has this kind of restriction, and what is the purpose? It's just another way that Microsoft stupidly reduces the value of thier software - by putting silly restrictions and making licensing difficult.

I would love to know how much revenue RMS generates in total. Maybe someone would step up with a new POS system if they knew the value of the market.

The problem is acording to most licenses you don't really own the software, more like renting it, and I don't know of any equipment rental store that would let you sell the product you were renting to someone else. I'm not saying I agree with it but that's the way it is and no amount of bitching is going to change it. Can't say as I blame them though. What's to stop people from installing the software and then selling it, and then the next person could do the same thing. Developers would lose millions of dollars. You might say that no support would go with it, but many people don't buy support anyway. Craig

OK, if you are "out of business" then it would be easy to "sell" your business (and the dongles) to someone else.

The dongles represent the entire assets of your business at this point.

How does 2 dongles work together? One is for 4 lanes and the other for 4 more lanes? Does the program see the other dongle?

Mickie

Norman wrote:

Yes, but in the licensing agreement says you have to sell the license as part of the business. This implies a stock sale which opens up the purchaser to all of the liabilities of the defunct business. I do not believe that legally an "asset sale" would qualify as selling an entire business. Any business lawyers out there?

If he is "out of business" this also implies that the business is wrapped up, and presumably the entity is dissolved, making it impossible to sell the business anyway.