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Article #7616Re: LEGALITY OF SELLING SOFTWARE
From: Stephen M. Smith
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 18:57
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 18:57
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kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes: >In article <70629@microsoft.UUCP> fredf@microsoft.UUCP (Fred FREELAND) writes: >if I signed a license containing such terms and mailed it to Microsoft, they >would not be able to hold my employer and fellow employees to the terms of the >license. > >Just because someone can put together a plausable sounding terms on an >envelope, call it a license, and declare that any individual who opens the >envelope agrees to the terms written thereon does not make it so! >....Microsoft cannot prove that the accused opened the envelope. Step one: Give software package to your daughter. Step two: Tell her something is inside. Step three: Leave the room. Step four: Come back in and "rescue" opened package. SS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!news From: smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: LEGALITY OF SELLING SOFTWARE Message-ID: <1991Feb14.185702.358@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 14 Feb 91 18:57:02 GMT References: <38899@cup.portal.com> <70629@microsoft.UUCP> <1991Feb13.085216.23042@digi.lonestar.org> Sender: news@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu Distribution: usa Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu