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- From: edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Subject: Re: Hidden "licenses" for software
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.133153.23449@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: <1993Jan5.211431.2404@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <PHR.93Jan5183230@napa.telebit.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:31:53 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <PHR.93Jan5183230@napa.telebit.com>, phr@telebit.com (Paul
- Rubin) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- That's a good idea. It allows them to sell the original product without
- a license and also allows me to decide, when purchasing the upgrade, if
- getting the new version but losing the old one is worth the price.
-
-
- -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
- "Always mount a scratch monkey."
- edp@rusure.enet.dec.com
-