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From: tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Converting MicroSoft C to Turbo C
Message-ID: <1116@killer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 19:42:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1116
Posted: Thu Jul  9 19:42:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 18:00:28 EDT
References: <381@aucs.UUCP> <875@kodak.UUCP> <1206@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <305@ashtate.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Summary: selling software
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In article <305@ashtate.UUCP>, cy@ashtate.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes:
> In article <1060@killer.UUCP> toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) writes:
> >Now that I have Turbo C, I have sold my copy of MSC 4.0,
> >for about $100.00. 
> >Take the money you made selling MSC 4.0 and if you work it right, you
> >will be able to buy Turbo C, MIX C and C trace.
> >
> >Tom
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> >Tom Armistead
> 
> Just a reminder: most software is not *sold* to you, but *licensed* for
> your use only. The MS License Agreement reads: "As the LICENSEE, you own
> the magnetic or other media on which the SOFTWARE is originally or subse-
> quently recorded or fixed, but Microsoft retains title and ownership of the
> SOFTWARE recorded on the original disk and all subsequent copies... In no
> event may you transfer, assign, rent, lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of 
> the SOFTWARE..."
>  
> --Cy--      cy@ashtate.UUCP

(First of all, I know this is in the wrong group, but I want to leave it
where it started.)

Yeah, but...  Personally I have a problem with this policy.  What purpose
does this have?  If I buy a copyrighted book, I am free to resell it
whenever I want.  Why not software?  It is a valuable piece of
merchandise like anything else, and selling does not create an
illicit copy.  Ford does not sell cars that only the original buyer
may own.  A program is no less a piece of property than a car.

Unless I misunderstand, one could legally sell his or her copy of Turbo
C under the license agreement.  Why can't other companies adopt such a
simple and sensical policy?

I think such a policy is rude, obnoxious, and just plain wrong.
Unfortunately, I must put up with several pieces of software
with such license policies because I need the software.  GACK!

I feel better now.

Tad
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