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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What a dongle is (Was Re: Copy protection: boycott it!)
Message-ID: <1193@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 16:13:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 26 16:13:22 1987
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in article <6965@ism780c.UUCP>, mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) says:
> Well, that's not so true.  When you go to a store and pick up a copy
> of say Lotus 123, you didn't buy that package but a liscense to use
> the software that is enclosed.  I don't understand all the implications,
> but I do know that there are a hell of a lot of legal spaghetti in the
> liscensing agreements (except for Borland's).

I'll have to remember that. Maybe we should all get together and file suit
against Lotus for FRAUD. Consider. I go to a software store. Lotus 123 is
sitting on the shelf. I buy it, and give the store owner my $499 check. Then I
get home, and find that I didn't buy it, at all, because a little note tucked
in the first couple of pages of the manual says that Lotus owns the program,
and is just letting me rent it for awhile, until I do something they don't
agree with. That isn't what I paid for. I thought I was buying it. These
people defrauded me!
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