Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!houxk!jhv From: jhv@houxk.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: "user software" Message-ID: <19@houxk.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 20:28:14 EDT Article-I.D.: houxk.19 Posted: Wed Jun 1 20:28:14 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 12:28:28 EDT References: ecs.322 Lines: 11 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.