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

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From: Carl Steinhilber
Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 00:00

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NOYDB wrote:
: lcs@jumpnet.com    (Lindsay Computer Systems) wrote:
: 
: > 2. Even if these WFW packages are true MS OEM product, the legal ramifications
: >    of MS Licensing are that unless ALL sellers have OEM Distribution Agreements
: >    with Microsoft, all product becomes illegal, and even brokering those packages,
: >    without ever even touching, or seeing those packages, subjects all parties to
: >    the army of MS lawyers, etc., etc., etc.

: Courts have already ruled on these issues.

They HAVE?!? Which courts?? WHERE?!? 

: 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.

Thus, if you wish to format all 544(x 8) WfW disks and sell
them in lots of 8 for $34, that's your legal right. But you
can not sell the software.

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 Carl Steinhilber         csteinhilber@graphicmedia.com
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From: Carl Steinhilber <csteinhilber@graphicmedia.com>
Subject: Re: ** Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for $34.00!!!! ***
Date: 1996/05/05
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