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From: ugjohna@sunybcs.UUCP (John Arrasjid)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Your software rights are in danger
Message-ID: <2660@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Dec-85 11:56:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 25 11:56:42 1985
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Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: Lemon Law
Summary: A lemon law for computers and software...





It seems that all the laws that I have seen only protect the Software Company.
New York and various other states have what is called a Lemon Law for motor
vehicles that protects the buyer from defective merchandise (granted, this is
for used vehicles). If you buy a piece of software and it crashes or doesn't
even work the first time then what can you do? Most (not all) companies will
charge you for a replacement and some will even require you to purchase the
product again. As there are more software users out there than companies, then
it would appear to me that an organized lobbying effort on the part of the
users should have a greater effect on legislators than the software companies.
After all, we do vote for them!

John Arrasjid                                    SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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