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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Is a Shareware license enforceable?
Message-ID: <216@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 21:30:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 21:30:36 1986
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Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
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In article <4747@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> The law is not that you "get to keep it" -- it is that you DON'T have to
>> respond or send it back.  This may sound like a minor distinction, but it
>> is not -- you are NOT entitled to make use of the unsolicited merchandise
>> without payment.
>
>Can you tell me your source for this?  My understanding has always
>been that if someone sends you something you didn't order (unless
>it's something like a mistake in which you ordered something and
>they sent something different), then that thing is a gift and you
>can keep it, use it, and not pay for it.

Dear Abby agrees with Andrew.
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