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From: silvert@dalcs.UUCP
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Subject: Can the author refuse to share shareware?
Message-ID: <2513@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 06:41:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 06:41:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Apr-87 03:46:16 EST
Organization: Marine Ecology Lab.
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Keywords: arc

Comments requested on the following problem.  I installed arc on several
machines, including the unix engine I use at work.  Since it is a
government lab, I tried to send in the requested $35 (US) license fee to
System Enhancement Associates.  It created no end of confusion in our
finance department, sending money for a product that we already had!
But SEA has apparently refused to license our system, on the grounds
that arc doesn't run on it!

I plan to continue using arc, and I will be happy to pay the requested
fee to SEA, but I have never heard of anyone trying to pay for shareware
and being refused.  Raises an interesting question about software
rights, doesn't it?
-- 
Bill Silvert, Modelling/Statistics Group
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
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