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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Is a Shareware license enforceable?
Message-ID: <2876@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 17:32:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 17:32:38 1986
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In article <841@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:

>>   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".

Tell that to Texaco, they just lost a 15 billion dollar lawsuit with
another oil company (Pennzoil?  name escapes me now) over breaching
an "oral contract".  The amount will probably be successfully appealed, 
but the "oral contract" will probably stand.  Aren't Texan juries wonderfull?
-- 
Chris Lewis,
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