Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!hao!husc6!seismo!mcvax!nikhefk!keeshu From: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Converting MicroSoft C to Turbo C Message-ID: <172@nikhefk.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 07:06:18 EDT Article-I.D.: nikhefk.172 Posted: Thu Jul 9 07:06:18 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 18:02:41 EDT References: <381@aucs.UUCP> <875@kodak.UUCP> <1206@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <1060@killer.UUCP> <305@ashtate.UUCP> Reply-To: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser) Distribution: world Organization: National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands Lines: 23 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..." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # #--Cy-- cy@ashtate.UUCP Does that mean I can't do a DEL *.* on a MicroSoft product disk and legally answer Yes when I get the question Are You Sure?? :-) -- Kees | UUCP : keeshu@nikhefk.uucp or {[wherever]!seismo}!mcvax!nikhefk!keeshu | BITNET : keeshu@hasara5.bitnet | FIDO : kees huyser at 508/15 (Opus_MacSaga) or 500/11 (HCC_Amsterdam_1) | SNAIL : kees huyser, NIKHEF-K, PO Box 4395, 1009 AJ Amsterdam, Netherlands |----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | As official spokesman for the Institute is is my privilege to announce that | the board of governors of the Institute have withdrawn my privilege of being | the official spokesman for the Institute.