David Schwartz wrote: > Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > > >>I would think that if I set up a shop and wanted to have the word >>"Microsoft" as part of the shop name, there would be some rules >>dictating what products I could and could not sell, yes. Wether those >>rules are set forth in a law somewhere or Microsoft set them forth >>themselves, I would find it hard to believe that the law would >>prohibit them from doing so. > > >>Otherwise I could set up a shop, call it "Microsoft Porsgrunn" and >>sell machines with only Linux installed. > > >>I think Microsoft would be allowed to say "No, you can't do that". > > > Burger King won't let you sell Whoppers or buy their burger patties > wholesale no matter what you want to call your store unless you take the > whole franchise deal. It's an all-or-nothing package. With very few limits, > companies do get to choose how their products are branded, marketed, and > sold.
Yes, and that's not what Microsoft has ever done. There have always been lots of shops selling Microsoft merchandise without being a Microsoft franchise in the sense Burger King shops are. That's why I still say your comparison is a bad one. -- Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen http://usinglvkblog.blogspot.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KeyID: 0x2A42A1C2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
