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From: osmigo1@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Rental Software?
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Date: Fri, 9-May-86 19:43:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 19:43:30 1986
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Since the University of Texas is part of Apple's consortium thing (where
students and staff can buy Macs at a discount), we have been blessed with
a number of "software rental" businesses. An employee of one of these
recently told me that what actually happens is that the customer *buys* the
software at the retail price (or very close to it), then returns it within
a week, at which time the store *buys it back* as a used item at 85% of its
original price. Thus, the customer has "rented" it for 15% of the retail
price. This circumvents any question of illegalities. 

Ron Morgan 

"In graduate school, nobody can hear you scream."


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