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echo: os2
to: Ian Singer
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 1999-08-30 09:14:14
subject: Beware of shoddy dealers

Ian Singer wrote in a message to Albert Sodyl:

AS> I didn't buy anything, I get everything for free 10 gigs of
AS> anything you want for free along with a new computer.

 IS> In most cases, unless it is being specifically written for
 IS> you, you dont buy software, you only buy a licence to use
 IS> it. If you read a lot of agreements first of all you will
 IS> find that by opening the package you agree to their terms,
 IS> then you will find that you can not read their terms without
 IS> opening the package, then you will see that at any time they
 IS> consider the agreement to have been broken they can request
 IS> back all their software (originals and copies).

And from what I hear,  a lot of the stuff in those "shrinkwrap licenses" can
be considered more or less unenforceable...

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