   .NET 2003 w/ CD Key for sale
  Hey, my school gave me an extra copy of Microsoft Visual Studios .NET 2003. It's fully operational and all that, still in the case with the CD Key sticker still attatched. I don't need it because I have 2005 now. I'm trying to sell it of so, uh I dunno. Message me. Name your price.   
  Might help to specify edition, and whether or not its an academic license. If it is, you can't really resell it unless you're an authorized educational reseller, and even then only to people who can legally use academic software. I'm not sure of the exact restrictions off-hand, but I do know that there's a reason I still have a complete edition of Borland Builder 6 Academic collecting dust on my bookshelf.Whether or not the license is academic severely impacts the resale value, even assuming you get beyond all the legal implications of an academic license, et cetera (I'm quite inclined to believe that it is, since you got it from a school -- you should double-check).   ;  Standard edition with MSDN.   ;  I'm pretty sure microsoft wouldn't appreciate you reselling their software. Remember, software licences give you the right to use the contents of the disc, but technically not to do whatever you want with the disc itself.   ;  I haven't installed it. Therefor I haven't agreed to any licenses, and microsoft can do dirty things with my sex organs if they don't like.   ;  Msg with desired price. If you do not benefit in terms of inflation, then how can it be wrong? I don't know, so whatever. :)   ;  There is no desired price. Just make a fair offer.   ;Quote:Original post by medevilenemyI'm pretty sure microsoft wouldn't appreciate you reselling their software. Remember, software licences give you the right to use the contents of the disc, but technically not to do whatever you want with the disc itself.You are completely wrong, period.  While there are some software licenses that attempts to prevent resale (and some that actual succeed at this), almost all software in this country (the US) is resellable, provided the original purchaser remove any and all copies they have installed, destroy any backups, and turn over all of the originally receieved product components.Academic licenses of course have special rules and definately must be resold only to people who qualify for the license, assuming resale is possible in this case.   ;  The ability to resell stuff is a sticky issue, and is related to the first-sale doctrine and EULAs.Both the Second and Ninth federal circuit appeals courts have ruled that you can resell software without restriction.  You cannot be bound to software licenses unless you begin using them, and purchasing a box does not mean you have agreed to the license.The Ninth has additionally ruled that any one time payment granting a permanent license to use software is a sale and follows normal trade laws rather than EULA contracts.  (That includes the ability to resell, rent, loan, reverse engineer, and otherwise use the property as you see fit within copyright and other appropriate laws.  Basically if you can do it with a book or toy or hardware, you can do it with software too.)But Washington State (one of the states inside the 9th federal circuit) has ruled the opposite than the federal courts.[google] for the cases, I don't want to bother.In short, chances are that what you are doing is just fine in the United States generally, but different states have and enforce different laws.   ;  That's nice and all, but what does this have to do with programming?   