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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software: rental analogy and insurance
Message-ID: <4524@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 89 00:36:56 GMT
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From article <5064@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, by cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth):
> ...
>My guess is that outside of the shysters who write the slips that go
>into blister packs and the brilliant people who read this newsgroup, no
>one else on the face of the planet ~knows~ that software is ~really~
>"rented."

I guess you're right.  But what's the difference whether software
venders call their sales `rentals'?  Let them call it what they
want.  A cat can have her kittens in the oven and call them
`biscuits' -- doesn't make it so.

			Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu