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From: smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: LEGALITY OF SELLING SOFTWARE
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.185702.358@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 18:57:02 GMT
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kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:
>In article <70629@microsoft.UUCP> fredf@microsoft.UUCP (Fred FREELAND) writes:
>if I signed a license containing such terms and mailed it to Microsoft, they
>would not be able to hold my employer and fellow employees to the terms of the
>license.  
>
>Just because someone can put together a plausable sounding terms on an
>envelope, call it a license, and declare that any individual who opens the
>envelope agrees to the terms written thereon does not make it so!

>....Microsoft cannot prove that the accused opened the envelope. 

Step one:   Give software package to your daughter.
Step two:   Tell her something is inside.
Step three: Leave the room.
Step four:  Come back in and "rescue" opened package.

SS