Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!pyramid!prls!philabs!gcm!dc From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million Message-ID: <457@white.gcm> Date: 7 May 88 07:49:21 GMT References: <9160@cisunx.UUCP> <1801@uhccux.UUCP> <807@netxcom.UUCP> <9360@cisunx.UUCP> <810@netxcom.UUCP> Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell) Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT Lines: 17 In article <810@netxcom.UUCP> ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes: >In article <9360@cisunx.UUCP> mike@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Mike Elliot) >writes: >>In article <807@netxcom.UUCP> ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes: .The only 'legal' way that I would able to do this sort of testing, would be to .borrow such products from friends for a period of time. Since they wouldn't .want to be left without their software for an extended period, this would .involve copying. Understand, I'd only do this to decide which of several .packages did everything I wanted, the way that I wanted. When I came to a .final decision, which would take some time, I WOULD purchase one of them. .The others would be destroyed. Read almost any software agreement. It is not copiable except for backup purposes. Your argument is meaningless; you can not copy it. You have to think of some other way to make a buying decision. Most people seem to make do for other products.