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From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: LEGALITY OF SELLING SOFTWARE
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.002128.25064@qualcomm.com>
Date: 23 Feb 91 00:21:28 GMT
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In article <1991Feb22.171221.17597@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>>also realize that if you're not honest, a laughable software license isn't
>>going to do anything but keep some lawyers employed.  So we ask that you only
>>use one copy at a time and that you don't give this program to your friends,
>>but encourage them to buy it at the cheap price of $xx."
>
>And how do you think this differs from what MS wants you to do?

It's not very different in application, except that you don't have to have the
stupid little card to use it.  The big difference is in the way they present
it.  Whereas MicroSoft (and most other companies, this is not a MS specific
complaint) hits you over the head with a page full of legalese over what you
can and cannot do, under threat of sever penalty and no doubt deportation,
the Interactive Easyflow license asks you nicely to respect the copyright
on the program in simple English, and makes no hollow threats about what will
happen if you don't.