Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!spdcc!kaos!blblbl!mipseast!rogerk 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 Lines: 15 >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... -- Roger B.A. Klorese MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!rogerk 25 Burlington Mall Rd, Suite 300 rogerk@mips.COM Burlington, MA 01803 * Your witticism here.* +1 617 270-0613