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<blockquote data-quote="Henry@home" data-source="post: 107557" data-attributes="member: 159">Henry Grins widely Yes, you do - with Microsoft's Academic products line.Having worked in a &quot;Mom-and-Pop&quot; Computer Store in my career, I can tell you that Microsoft are Sticklers with small retailers selling their Academic products line. If you don't have all the requirements (Name, License, Academic Certification such as College Id, Professorial ID, etc.) then you ain't supposed to sell it.OTOH, Large Discount Retailers of Certain Size and Fame (who shall remain nameless <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />) flagrantly break these standards at all times (and never get caught), and it drives the Mom-and-Pop shops not only crazy but out of business in many cases. I know first-hand of one employee of a small retailer, who, as a test, walked into one of these mass-retailer stores, and purchased a Microsoft Academic copy with no credentials at all! Even when it was reported, no additional action was taken. Why? Because in my opinion, Microsoft does not want to lose the volume pricing with this particular chain, and so small indiscretions such as this go unpunished. This kind of stuff goes on everyday - but it doesn't make it legal. Morality and ethics are very difficult to argue in any forum on this issue - but the question of legality is usually pretty clear by reading the statutes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry@home, post: 107557, member: 159"] [I]Henry Grins widely[/I] Yes, you do - with Microsoft's Academic products line. Having worked in a "Mom-and-Pop" Computer Store in my career, I can tell you that Microsoft are Sticklers with small retailers selling their Academic products line. If you don't have all the requirements (Name, License, Academic Certification such as College Id, Professorial ID, etc.) then you ain't supposed to sell it. OTOH, Large Discount Retailers of Certain Size and Fame (who shall remain nameless :D) flagrantly break these standards at all times (and never get caught), and it drives the Mom-and-Pop shops not only crazy but out of business in many cases. I know first-hand of one employee of a small retailer, who, as a test, walked into one of these mass-retailer stores, and purchased a Microsoft Academic copy with no credentials at all! Even when it was reported, no additional action was taken. Why? Because in my opinion, Microsoft does not want to lose the volume pricing with this particular chain, and so small indiscretions such as this go unpunished. This kind of stuff goes on everyday - but it doesn't make it legal. Morality and ethics are very difficult to argue in any forum on this issue - but the question of legality is usually pretty clear by reading the statutes. [/QUOTE]

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