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- From: edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Subject: Re: Derive for Sale
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.132354.22981@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1993Jan5.204251.1281@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <C0EMBA.Bqr@iat.holonet.net>
- Distribution: us,usa
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:23:54 GMT
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- In article <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.
-
- How do you figure that? Suppose I tell you "By opening your
- refrigerator, you agree to pay me $1,000 per week, in exchange for which
- I will deliver one fresh, grade A egg to you." If you then opened your
- refrigerator, would you be agreeing to my terms?
-
- No, because you own the refrigerator, and I don't have a right to tell
- you that you can't open it unless you agree to my terms. Similarly, the
- Derive ROM card was sold to me WITHOUT ANY TERMS. By the time I
- received it, I wholly owned it; Soft Warehouse had no more right to tell
- me I could not open the envelope than I have to tell you you cannot open
- your refrigerator.
-
-
- -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
- "Always mount a scratch monkey."
- edp@rusure.enet.dec.com
-