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<1991May26.180844.5013@panix.uucp>, joseph@panix.uucp (Joseph R. Skoler) writes:
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> 
>I just got a flyer from Reliance Commercial Software Library.
> 
>For $2.50 per disk (plus $4.00 shipping), they'll send you complete
>up to date copies of commercial software.
> 
>Is this bogus, or are they for real?
> 
>Anybody use them yet?
> 
 
I don't have any hard information to back this comment up, but
it does sound suspicious. What rights to this software do they
claim to be able to deliver? Is there a time limit (i.e. is it
a rental), or not (i.e. a "sale")?
 
Is there someone out there working for one of the software
companies who can shed some light on this? If I "purchase" a
software package (or usually just the right to use it on a
single machine), I don't think I could rent it out this way
without violating some part of the licensing agreement. If
the developers whose software is being used this way condone 
such practices, I think that would give those of us that
prefer to stay ligitimate some cause to complain to them; if
they don't condone it, why don't they go after them?
 
Another point -- if they send you the "originals", I would be
*VERY* suspicious about the contents. Who knows where these
disks have been?
 
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