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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What a dongle is (Was Re: Copy protection: boycott it!)
Message-ID: <6965@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 16:28:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.6965
Posted: Thu Jul 23 16:28:26 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:32:14 EDT
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Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <305@sering.cwi.nl> fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani) writes:
>	If I hate _ONE_ thing in life its other people bothering
>	about what is best for me !  The sellers seem to forget
>	that I _BOUGHT_ their product, so its my property and I
>	should be able to use it my way.


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).

MikeP
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