Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!milton!phaedrus
From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Mac Plus For Sale
Message-ID: <9895@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 05:31:37 GMT
References: <9467@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <6063@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <9505@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
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In article <9505@ucrmath.ucr.edu> xfgi8b@ucrmath.ucr.edu (james colton) writes:
>In article <6063@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes:
>>	To be horribly blunt, you aren't selling 3 copies of one $2500
>>set of software, are you?
>
>Absolutely not! The software that is being included (without giving a full
>description) is very useful but somewhat outdated. If the user would like
>it included on the drives I don't think the manufacturer or programmer
>would have a problem with that - because the software has been updated.
     I don't follow that logic at all.  To me, it would be like saying that
it's okay for me to email you a copy of Microsoft Word 3.x, or even 4.00,
because they've come out with 4.00c since then.  I don't see the connection
between age and loss of copyright.
     If it were a matter of sending newer versions to someone who had already
bought and paid for older versions of the software, then it could be argued
at least to some extent that it was all right to do it.  But to send
commercial, copyrighted software, however old, to multiple people, or to
send it to a single person while keeping a copy (even of a different version)
for yourself, is just plain illegal and just plain wrong.  Making it part of
the terms of a sale makes it even more so.



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