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Re: Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for $34.00!!!! *

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From: Dragon Rider
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:00

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In article <4mns99$ld5@goodnews.voicenet.com>, jmmazzeo@voicenet.com says...
>
>Carl Steinhilber <csteinhilber@graphicmedia.com> wrote:
>
><snip>
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>>: This statement is not true. MS would like for you to think this but the 
law says
>>: that I may sell any property I own, period.
>
>>Therein lies your confusion. You don't OWN the software. It is
>>LICENSED to you. What you pay for when you buy a piece of 
>>software is the media on which it is distributed. The
>>developer/marketer/manufacturer still owns the software which
>>resides on that media.
>
>Agreed.  One does not own the software.  Wouldn't it be the right to
>license that is being sold not the software persay?  
>
>For example, if Mr. Smith buys an upgrade version of a software
>product and decides to sell the version that he is replacing to Mr.
>Jones, Mr. Smith forfeits the license to the upgrade version to Mr.
>Jones.  Mr. Jones would then technically own the license to the
>current version on Mr. Smith's PC.
>
>Yea or nay?
>
    As long as you sold only the copy that you bought you MAY be right.But 
if you copied the software and resold several copies,you might be in 
trouble.I am no lawyer and the above is only my humble opinion.

               dragon rider

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From: tntt@gate.net (Dragon Rider)
Subject: Re: ** Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for $34.00!!!! ***
Date: 1996/05/12
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