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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Help: MS-DOS FORTRAN
Summary: If you don't buy it, it ain't yours
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.121446.23811@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 27 Jun 91 12:14:46 GMT
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In article <677@equinox.unr.edu> lsmith@unssun.UUCP (The Master) writes:
>
> Suppose I buy a used computer, and the hard disk is loaded with
>software. W.P., Lotus, DB4, all the goodies... The original owner
>bought the software and a license to install it on his computer.
>So the software is legal, right? Now he sells the computer. Does
>the software license transfer along with the computer and software,
>or does it stay with the original owner, who kept the floppies but
>does not now have a computer?

If he doesn't sell you the software he still owns it.  He can install it
on another computer, or sell it to someone else.

> POSTED FROM THE GREAT STATE OF NEVADA                                          
That is a good oxymoron.


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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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