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    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Adobe's Creative Cloud for enterprise, Individual, or Single App Terms of Use permit deployment in a VM. Even if they didn't, it's not illegal to violate software terms of use, though it could open you up to a breach of contract.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I meant the $7 license

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    What's illegal about a $7 windows license?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    It violates Microsoft policies

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    It's not illegal to violate terms of service, at worst it's breach of contract. What policy does it even violate? As best as I can tell Windows licenses are transferrable by first owner provided they aren't installed on another machine.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I'm not a lawyer but it seems like a copyright infringement. Historically Microsoft would of gone after Greg market stuff but now we are the product.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Copyright infringement? The only thing being purchased is the product key, from an online reseller. The software is downloaded from the Microsoft website. It's not an infringement of copyright to purchase a software key from a company other than Microsoft, it's not even a violation of their terms of service as best as I can tell.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    You need to be an official Microsoft seller for it to be legal.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Where is that written?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Check the legal stuff

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    I did, best as I can tell it's permitted. Resale of retail Windows licenses is legal. I can't find anything saying it's not.