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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
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Subject: Re: Your software rights are in danger
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 05:59:08 EST
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In article <1950@gondor.UUCP> schuler@gondor.UUCP (David W. Schuler) writes:
>With these facts in mind, I think that the first thing
>the Ill. legislature should do is lock up ALL of the
>people in the government who use computers.  Everyone
>has violated at least one of these sections of the
>proposed bill at any one time.  
>
   The point is that the law permits the application of licenses prohibiting
various activities, not that it actually forbids all activities described in
the law (this would be both absurd and unconstitutional).

   The whole assumption that "software companies will incorporate every
possible restriction into their licenses" is simply unfounded.  Clearly
restrictive licenses reduce the value of the product, and thus the sales
(except if they are ignored, in which case it is irrelevant what they say).

   Also, in response to another article, the law does clearly state that the
purchaser must be able to examine the terms of the license agreement before
committing the act that indicates acceptance of the contract; i.e. one can
always read the license and decide to return the product for refund.

   -- David desJardins