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

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From: Joe Mazzeo
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 00:00

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Carl Steinhilber <csteinhilber@graphicmedia.com> wrote:

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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?

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From: jmmazzeo@voicenet.com (Joe Mazzeo)
Subject: Re: ** Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for $34.00!!!! ***
Date: 1996/05/07
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