Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!psueea!parsely!bucket!leonard From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Legality of "old" software disposition Keywords: Old versions, sharing software Message-ID: <1692@bucket.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 03:48:14 GMT References: <3772@blake.acs.washington.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR. Lines: 14 As of a year ago, Microsoft's stand was that when you receive your upgrade you are supposed to *destroy* the old version of the software. You *definitely* may NOT transfer it to someone else unless you give them the upgrade too (leaving you with nothing...) On the other hand, Borland's stand is that you can do whatever you please with the old version. If you upgrade to version X, you can sell, give away, whatever, your copy of version x-1. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short