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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.sources.mac
Subject: Re: Is a Shareware license enforceable?
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Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 18:06:32 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  5 18:06:32 1986
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>From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
>> God I hope they don't pass the "shrink wrap" law.  That could have a lot of
>> bad implications for people's freedom.  I prefer to think that my signature
>> is required before I involve myself in an agreement.
>> Sean Casey 

>   I've entered into many oral contracts, sometimes for things much more
>expensive than a copy of dBaseIII ... .  However these contracts have
>always been with people -- since you can't shake hands with a corporation.
>
>--henry schaffer

As Samuel Goldwyn was credited with saying "A verbal agreement isn't
worth the paper it's written on".

Thank you, thank you, you've been a wonderful audience, god bless, thank you..

	-Barry Shein, Boston University