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From: jhv@houxk.UUCP
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Subject: "user software"
Message-ID: <19@houxk.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 20:28:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  1 20:28:14 1983
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I am struck by George Brett's implication that there is something illegal
about an individual reselling something that the person has legally purchased.
I grant that software is a sensitive issue and that copying for a profit is
illegal and that making copies for friends is borderline illegal;
but if I cannot sell my legal copy of software, thereby giving up all my
rights to that software, why is it legal for me to conduct normal trade,
which is nothing more then people buying and selling goods and services which
other people have bought and sold?

I am sure there is some basic legal principle involved here,
but alas, a laywer I am not.