On 22 Jan 97, Carin M. Armlin wrote to John Giannini:
JG>> Just like if I had purchased Windows 3.1, and when Win 95 came out,
JG>> bought that, then sold my *original* copy of Windows 3.1 to
JG>> someone - original disks in original box. That's completely legal
JG>> and violates NO copyright WHATSOEVER.
CA> Not entirely true, I think. If I remember my college instructor's
CA> lecture one day (this being a computer class--can't remember which
CA> one, since I had him for several over veriying quarters), it's fine
CA> to sell your original software--as long as you weren't still running
CA> it on your computer anymore.
CA> Yeah, yeah...of course if you were running Win95, you wouldn't still be
CA> running Win 3.11.
Actually, you are right. My choice of example was bad. Win95 is an upgrade
to Windows 3.1. So in running Win95, you still need to keep Win31 disks
around. I guess I should have used another example. Maybe Word Perfect.
Substituting Word Perfect for Win31 in my example does make my example valid.
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