UsedSoft

[5] When Schneider died in June 2022 after a serious illness, existing executives Johannes Jäger and Michael Aufderheide took over the operation of the company.

Its customer base includes large companies, SMEs, and public agencies, including Edeka, Woolworth, Harry Broth, s.Oliver, Segafredo, the airports of Munich and Salzburg, law firms, an association in Germany's Bundesliga soccer league, savings and loans banks, as well as the City of Munich, Germany's Federal Social Court in Kassel, and the Thuringia Police.

The ECJ ruled, barring further recourse for appeal, that the principle of exhaustion applies to every first-time sale of software.

The ECJ even laid out that the second acquirer of computer programs that have been transmitted online may download the software from the manufacturer: "In such circumstances, the exhaustion of the distribution right [...] extends to the copy of the computer program sold as corrected and updated by the copyright holder",[8] according to the ECJ.

However, the ruling did stated that resellers could not break up a license in order to sell only part of it, for example if they have purchased licenses for more users than they needed and wanted to sell off the surplus: the IT press reported this aspect of the ruling as "a small victory" for software licensors.