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Article #1198Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Mark Evans
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00
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Jason Clifford <jason@ukpost.com> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 jedi@dementia.mishnet wrote: >> So their sign stating that they take no returns for refunds >> on opened software is just bullshit, eh? > Not only bullshit but also illegal in the UK. If a product does not > perform as advertised or is othewise broken you are entitled to a refund. > It has already been established that software is classed as goods in the > UK for this purpose and therefore comes under the Sale of Goods Act. It's the "supply and sale of and services act" which ammends the "sale of goods act". This is significent since the new standard of "satisfactory quality" is harder to meet than the older "merchentable quality". Also the newer law allows rejection of parts of a package, rather than the previous all or nothing approach. e.g. assuming that software is considered either a good or a service (which the people on uk.legal arn't convinced of, IMHO this won't become clear until the matter goes to the House of Lords.) It is quite possible to demand a refund of preloaded software and keep the machine.
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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/10
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