Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!cuae2!killer!elg 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 Article-I.D.: killer.1193 Posted: Sun Jul 26 16:13:22 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 02:25:55 EDT References: <6965@ism780c.UUCP> Organization: Bayou Telecommunications Lines: 20 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! -- Eric Green elg%usl.CSNET Ron Headrest: A President {cbosgd,ihnp4}!killer!elg for the Electronic Age! Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 BBS phone #: 318-984-3854 300/1200 baud