Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Legality of "old" software disposition Message-ID: <2520c511@ralf> Date: 27 Sep 89 13:03:13 GMT Sender: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: <72347@linus.UUCP> In article <72347@linus.UUCP>, jcmorris@mbunix.mitre.org (Joseph C. Morris) wrote: >In a recent article djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) writes: >> What does >>Microsoft want QuickBasic 4 owners to do with QB Version 3? Can IT be >>given away freely? > >In a word, NO. When you made your original purchase, you acquired the >physical media (disks and documentation) along with the license to >possess and use the program. Purchasing a subsequent upgrade doesn't >buy you a new license, only new media and the right to use it under >your original license. In other words, all copies you've received are >covered under the same license, which probably says you can transfer What about the case in which you get an entirely new license agreement to sign and send in (along with full manuals)? -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=-=-=- Voice: (412) 268-3053 (school) ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 FAX: available on request Disclaimer? I claimed something? "All through human history, tyrannies have tried to enforce obedience by prohibiting disrespect for the symbols of their power. The swastika is only one example of many in recent history." -- American Bar Association task force on flag burning