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Re: LEGALITY OF SELLING SOFTWARE

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From: Phil Ngai
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1991 01:27
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In article <1991Feb18.211413.9429@qualcomm.com> rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
|I much prefer the Borland licensing agreement, which has got to be one of the
|most reasonable in this world of worthless licensing agreements.  I own Sprint,
|and I can have it installed at work and at home legally, because the Borland
|license says that I can put it on as many machines as I want, as long as I
|never run more than one copy at the same time.  So in your case, as long
|as you had as many copies of the program as could be run at once, you have no
|more hassles.

There is no difference of consequence between Borland's license and
Microsoft's.

|Just another in a long string of reasons why I prefer Borland over MS...

I wonder if the rest of your reasons are as baseless as this one.

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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: LEGALITY OF SELLING SOFTWARE
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