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- From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers,misc.forsale
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS software for sale
- Message-ID: <64684@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:34:51 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.174006.6397@newsance.att.com> <RRUSK.92Jul30083906@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com>
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- In article <RRUSK.92Jul30083906@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com> rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com writes:
- <On 29 Jul 92 17:40:06 GMT, trh@newsance.att.com (Thomas R. Horner;79A-301B;407-875-4136) wrote:
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- <>SOFTWARE FOR SALE!!
- <
- <>I have the following MS-DOS software for sale. These are older versions
- <>of popular software packages, which I have since upgraded.
- <
- <[Stuff deleted]
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- <Have you checked the licensing agreements on this software? My understanding
- <of an upgrade is just that -- it is sold to you as an enhancement to what
- <you have, not as a new, stand-alone product. In essence, by selling the
- <base product that you have upgraded from, you are selling part of a package,
- <or attempting to create two user licenses from one. Does anybody out there
- <know otherwise?
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- We bought some upgrade to a product of which we had 10-15 copies, which
- is not enough for all of our machines, but we didn't have on all of them.
- So since we had these old versions and people could use them, we called
- and asked if we could use the old ones - they said yes - this may be
- standard procedure or it may give rights to use it only to the purhaser.
-
- I could see the problem, if the second user tried to upgrade the older
- product, but this is often limited to the original user.
-
- Another product I bought personally said that I could actually use it
- on two machines, as long as two people weren't using it at the same
- time. I think this is a relatively common practice.
-
- Sincerely,
- Richard Pitts
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