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From: toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Converting MicroSoft C to Turbo C
Message-ID: <2436@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 10:38:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 10:38:26 1987
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KIn 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..."

KWell, I have an unopened copy here, and there is no "shrinkwrap" license.
And we all know about the printed ones in the package...

KExcept for the shrinkwrap license, in states where it is valid, I can't imagine
any being valid except for those that are signed.  There are two ways to
do this:

K1. To get any support, you send in a registration card which you sign as having
accepted the terms of the license agreement.  Of course this only works for
products where the manufacturer provides support.

K2. To get the product you have to sign and return a license agreement first.
In this day and age of mass marketing, this type of arrangement has all but
disappeared, but when I bought Wordstar in 1980, that is what I had to do.
The Wordstar agreement was also facinating in that you agreed to pay the
bounty Micropro gave for turning in pirated software-- If someone got a 
pirated copy and sent it to Micropro, they would send that person a free
licensed copy and charge the person who purchased the serial numbered copy!

Tom Almy
(No longer a Wordstar user)