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<title>As Microsoft repeal some Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products</title>
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<h1>As Microsoft repeal some Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products</h1>
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<p>Faced with user protests, Microsoft has been forced to
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make the terms for its latest Xbox gaming console <a
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href="http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update">look a little less
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restrictive</a>. However, the “new” terms which had caused
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such outrage were not in fact new at all: they were similar to most other
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proprietary software licences, including those covering other Microsoft
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software products and on-line services.</p>
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<p>Restrictions on selling, sharing and gift-giving appear, for example, in
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the Windows 7 and Office 2013 licences. Similar restrictions will continue
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to apply to the Xbox one in that <a
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href="http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update">"downloaded titles cannot be
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shared or resold"</a>. Geographic restrictions can also apply to Office
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2013, along a class action waiver. Gamers who were angered by the invasive,
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inadequate and mandatory 24 hour check-in and Kinect voice/motion sensor
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may be similarly angered by the clause demanding “you must comply with any
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technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in
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certain ways. You may not work around any technical limitations in
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the software” in the <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/Documents/UseTerms/Windows_7%20Home%20Basic%20K_English_1b4c2a3e-5533-431c-b57b-b986461b01de.pdf">Windows 7 licence</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>“Even after reversing course on some of the more egregious
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Xbox One terms, Microsoft still leaves its users wearing digital
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handcuffs,” says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's president. “We encourage
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everyone to choose Free Software instead, and break free of these
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restrictions.”</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>“While proprietary licenses restrict your freedom, Free Software
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always guarantees that you can use the software for any purpose, to study
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how it works, to share it with others, and modify it to your needs” says
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Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's Head of Public Awareness. “Users should not
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have to beg for these rights.”</p></blockquote>
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<a href="/graphics/xbox-infographic.png">
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<img src="/graphics/xbox-infographic.png" alt="" /></a>
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<p>It is still unclear what exactly the full license will or will not
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contain, for example, mention of the Class Action Waiver has been removed,
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but no statement has been made to repeal it.</p></div>
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