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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Converting MicroSoft C to Turbo C
Message-ID: <1279@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 10:36:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: osiris.1279
Posted: Thu Jul  9 10:36:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 06:46:49 EDT
References: <381@aucs.UUCP> <875@kodak.UUCP> <1206@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <305@ashtate.UUCP>
Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Summary: be real!

In article <305@ashtate.UUCP>, cy@ashtate.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes:
> 
> 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..."

	YOU CAN'T EVEN THROW THE SHIT AWAY !!!!

FLAME ON !!!

	That's just De Jure! The law is stupid! Suppose I get software
from Microsoft. I use it a year. I don't own it. I'm not renting it.
Suppose I don't like it after a year. Well, since it's still Microsoft's
why can't I ask them to take it back and pro-rate the original cost VS
the amount of time I could have used the software, and please refund
the difference ? Absurd !

	Let's face it, the logic behind software copyright law is flawed.
It's stupid. It's as braindead as can be, and staking people's fortunes
on it is even more stupid. Revolt ! Strike back against the Morons !
Everyone ignores the stupid law aynhow, and sooner or later, if enough
people admit it, the law will have to change !

--mjr(); software anarchist.
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic