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- From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
- Subject: Re: Derive for Sale
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.013151.20810@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
- References: <1993Jan5.204251.1281@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <C0EMBA.Bqr@iat.holonet.net>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:31:51 GMT
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- In <C0EMBA.Bqr@iat.holonet.net> brianw@iat.holonet.net (Brian Walsh) writes:
- >By opening a software package (disks or plug-in card) you automatically
- >agree to the manufacturer's license, as the packaging makes clear.
-
- The packaging can say whatever it likes, that doesn't make it law. There is
- a serious question about whether the company is selling you the new product
- for a reduced price (because you purchased an earlier product), or charging
- you a fee for updateing your package to the newer version. The company would
- like you to believe that the later is true, but that doesn't make it so. What
- is definatly true is that most of what companies state on the shrink lap is
- neither enforcable nor legal.
-
- Michael
-
-
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- Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
- kaufman | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
- @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
- | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die. Roy Batty
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