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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: sampling software (was: lotus chairman makes 26 million)
Message-ID: <319@mipseast.mips.COM>
Date: 7 May 88 19:45:39 GMT
References: <9160@cisunx.UUCP> <1801@uhccux.UUCP> <807@netxcom.UUCP> <9360@cisunx.UUCP> <810@netxcom.UUCP> <9463@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA
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>In article <810@netxcom.UUCP> ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes:
>>When I came to a
>>final decision, which would take some time, I WOULD purchase one of them.
>>The others would be destroyed.
>>Is this a 'justifiable' usage of 'copied' software?
>>Or am I asking for a lawsuit?

When you buy a car, you can rfead all the rags, read the documentation,
test-drive it... but you can't take three or four of them home for a month
or so until you decide which one you want, then give the others back...
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Roger B.A. Klorese                      MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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