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>MS giving you a "license" and keeping certain rights was challenged here in the question, whether it is allowed the sell the OS of a PC/OS bundle, which MS didn't allow in the EULA a few years ago. You are the owner of the OS and are allowed to sell it separately.
You can resell the "license", but you must stop using and destroy any copies that are not transferred to the new owner.
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>Seen from that perspective it might be arguable, whether I am allowed to run my own copy on linux. But if I sell an app with the runtimes, how am I to control where it is installed ? If it works, it works. Who is the person MS will be going after ? The developer usually has no right to enforce how customers install the product. The only bugout might be an EULA referring to the MS EULA and try to stay out of it...
You prohibit it in the EULA to your customers.
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>In my eyes, there is no need for MS to fix issues arising on linux, only bugs cropping up on the specified OS. This is, in my eyes, a (legally) relevant business reason - keeping test cost down.
IMO, the current EULA was designed specifically against Linux. However, it doesn't say that..it's any non-Windows OS.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer