Comment Not so new (Score 2, Informative) 509
It sounds like this is the first time first-sale doctrine has been applied to software. Nope, in 2001 a similar ruling was made backing up the little guy.
Softman v. Adobe.
Check it out.
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982