Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA!Al_Dunbar From: userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Is Reliance commercial software lending reliable? Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 23:29:51 GMT References: <1991May26.180844.5013@panix.uucp> Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta Lines: 37 <1991May26.180844.5013@panix.uucp>, joseph@panix.uucp (Joseph R. Skoler) writes: > > >I just got a flyer from Reliance Commercial Software Library. > >For $2.50 per disk (plus $4.00 shipping), they'll send you complete >up to date copies of commercial software. > >Is this bogus, or are they for real? > >Anybody use them yet? > I don't have any hard information to back this comment up, but it does sound suspicious. What rights to this software do they claim to be able to deliver? Is there a time limit (i.e. is it a rental), or not (i.e. a "sale")? Is there someone out there working for one of the software companies who can shed some light on this? If I "purchase" a software package (or usually just the right to use it on a single machine), I don't think I could rent it out this way without violating some part of the licensing agreement. If the developers whose software is being used this way condone such practices, I think that would give those of us that prefer to stay ligitimate some cause to complain to them; if they don't condone it, why don't they go after them? Another point -- if they send you the "originals", I would be *VERY* suspicious about the contents. Who knows where these disks have been? -------------------+------------------------------------------- Al Dunbar | Edmonton, Alberta | Disclaimer: "not much better than CANADA | datclaimer" -------------------+-------------------------------------------