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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Path: sparky!uunet!nntp.telebit.com!phr
- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Hidden "licenses" for software
- In-Reply-To: edp@math.zk3.dec.com's message of Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:14:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <PHR.93Jan5183230@napa.telebit.com>
- Sender: news@telebit.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: napa
- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <1993Jan5.211431.2404@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:32:30 GMT
- Lines: 7
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- Rather than all this legal sniping has anyone asked a simpler question:
- if the vendor didn't want you to sell the old card after getting
- the new one, why didn't they just ask you to return the old one
- in order to get the upgrade?
-
- It is, after all, a piece of hardware (rom card) rather than something
- like a floppy.
-