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Article #218Re: ** Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for $34.00!!!! ***
From: David Mabo, CPCM
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 00:00
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Joe Mazzeo wrote: > > Carl Steinhilber <csteinhilber@graphicmedia.com> wrote: > > <snip> > > >: 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? YES! -- David H. Mabo, CPCM Computer Labs, Inc. http://www.cl.com new email next week - dmabo@cl.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10afa1,9d11baf094cbac4d X-Google-Attributes: gid10afa1,public X-Google-Thread: 113580,9d11baf094cbac4d X-Google-Attributes: gid113580,public X-Google-Thread: 102b3b,9d11baf094cbac4d X-Google-Attributes: gid102b3b,public X-Google-Thread: 111310,9d11baf094cbac4d X-Google-Attributes: gid111310,public X-Google-Thread: f70d1,9d11baf094cbac4d X-Google-Attributes: gidf70d1,public X-Google-Thread: 11431d,9d11baf094cbac4d X-Google-Attributes: gid11431d,public X-Google-Thread: fd817,9d11baf094cbac4d X-Google-Attributes: gidfd817,public X-Google-Thread: 111bbe,1b109a6fc2c53c0a X-Google-Attributes: gid111bbe,public From: "David Mabo, CPCM" <dmabo@one.net> Subject: Re: ** Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for $34.00!!!! *** Date: 1996/05/08 Message-ID: <3190476E.6C04@one.net> X-Deja-AN: 153682147 references: <4lm4r0$ld@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> <4lquuo$ee4@news.jump.net> <4m4t7c$bvi@tiger.avana.net> <318D06D8.700B@graphicmedia.com> <4mns99$ld5@goodnews.voicenet.com> cc: dmabo@one.net content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Computer Labs, Inc. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,alt.comp.shareware,alt.comp.shareware.programmer,alt.comp.tandem-users,alt.computer.consultants,alt.computer.consultants.ads,aus.ads.forsale.computers,aus.computers,aus.computers.cdrom,aus.computers.ibm-pc,aus.computers.linux,aus.computers.logic-prog,aus.computers.os2 x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I)