Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!dave From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: "user software" Message-ID: <435@rocksvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 17:23:40 EDT Article-I.D.: rocksvax.435 Posted: Mon Jun 6 17:23:40 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jun-83 02:45:36 EDT Lines: 14 It seems to me that the software is licensed to the machine not the person. When that person sells that machine, the software went with it, the man who used to own the machine no longer can use it, he has no machine, so I don't see the problem! If you charge everytime you change hands, then I would say it falls in the same rape catagory NY state uses when you buy used motor vehicles, they tax you everytime it changes hands. Seems this is more insidious than a value added tax, since clearly no value is added with a the vehicle or the software. Dave Sewhuk Arpa: Sewhuk.HENR@PARC-MAXC uucp: {rochester,amd70,allegra}!rocksvax!dave