Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ogicse!milton!sumax!halcyon!ralphs From: halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Is Reliance commercial software lending reliable? Message-ID: <7X3N31w164w@halcyon.uucp> Date: 28 May 91 17:11:41 GMT References: Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service Lines: 19 userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar) writes: > >For $2.50 per disk (plus $4.00 shipping), they'll send you complete > >up to date copies of commercial software. > 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")? A possibility is that they are claiming that shareware == commercial (and in truth, it probably is). You buy the shareware disk for $x and STILL need to register it. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. -- The 23:00 News and Mail Service - +1 206 292 9048 - Seattle, WA USA PEP, V.32, V.42 +++ A Waffle Iron, Model 1.64 +++