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- From: ted@helios.UCSC.EDU (Ted Cantrall)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.d
- Subject: Re: CFD: public display of piracy
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 16:31:07 GMT
- Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
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- References: <POLLACK.92Nov9135541@dendrite.cis.ohio-state.edu> <sheldon.721342177@pv1417.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- In article <sheldon.721342177@pv1417.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
- ->In <POLLACK.92Nov9135541@dendrite.cis.ohio-state.edu> pollack@dendrite.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) writes:
- ->
- ->>How about when someone sells old software without manuals or old
- ->>versions which have been upgraded...
- -> As far as selling older versions of software. I don't care about this,
- ->and it's not a violation of copyright law. It's a legal copy.
- The licence agreement with *most* software prohibits selling or giving
- older versions. The licence agreement allows the purchaser to have *one* copy
- of the software. Once you get an upgrade, you no longer "own" the older
- version. You dont buy the software, you buy licence to use one copy.
- Upgrades are not a new licence for a new copy.
- ->
- ->I'm kind of selfish, I feel my wallet is much more important than
- ->the wallet of some software company.
- I'm not accusing Steve of anything since I don't know him or anything
- about what he has done, (or not done) but attitudes similar to this lead
- people to put their financial desires ahead of the law and themselves
- outside of the law.
- The policing of others will not be done by any of us, but we will all feel
- the results of widespread lawlessness. We all need to examine our hearts
- (and our hard disks) and vote for an orderly, lawfull society by keeping
- our own reputations above reproach.
- -ted-
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