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- From: stare@lonexb.rl.af.mil (Edward M. Starczewski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Gateway's Software Options?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.131852.8884@lonex.rl.af.mil>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 13:18:52 GMT
- References: <1992Sep09.020012.22945@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> <1992Sep9.124046.12491@devildog.att.com>
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- In article <1992Sep9.124046.12491@devildog.att.com> jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin) writes:
- >
- >The software is entirely equivalent, although the disks and manuals they
- >supply have "Gateway" labels and covers. Gateway has arranged for site
- >licenses of the software, and is allowed to freely distribute this software
- >to their customers. But Gateway is the registered owner of the software,not
- >you. This has two effects: first, you will not get upgrade notices from the
- >vendor. Gateway told me that they would send me upgrade offers, possibly at
- >a lower price than the original software vendor. (This remains to be seen.)
- >Second, although you can legally sell this software to someone else (by
- >removing the software from your machine and giving the buyer the original
- >disks and manuals), you cannot guarantee the buyer that they will receive
- >upgrade notices.
- >
- >--
- >Jim Dalin "No Salga Afuera"
- >AT&T N.Y.C.T.A.
- >ATTMail id: !jdalin
- >Compuserve: 72260,1573
-
- This is not entirely true of all the software options offered by gateway.
- For instance, I got the programmers option, which game with microsoft
- disks and manuals for visual basic, quick c and the help compiler. Also
- included was the registration card which I promptly filled out and sent
- to microsoft.
-
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