Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!andrew From: andrew@tcom.stc.co.uk (Andrew Macpherson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Can the author refuse to share shareware? Message-ID: <1252@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk> Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 20:01:06 EDT Article-I.D.: bute.1252 Posted: Fri Apr 17 20:01:06 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 03:48:42 EDT References: <2513@dalcs.UUCP> <6177@mimsy.UUCP> <26833@rochester.ARPA> <487@gouldsd.UUCP> <289@wolf.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@tcom.stc.co.uk (Andrew Macpherson) Organization: STC Telecoms, Harlow Technical Center, England CM20 2DE. Lines: 32 In article <289@wolf.UUCP> dennis@wolf.UUCP (Dennis Lou) writes: | In article <487@gouldsd.UUCP>, mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes: | > So if I go to a store with 100$ in cash and offer it for a Mercedes | > Benz, I can now walk off with the item ? Gee, I love capitalism ! | | | Well, I do believe that the legal tender law only applies to debts. For | instance, say you entered into a binding contract to pay a dealer for a | Benz that you financed. If you tried to give him cash to pay off the | financing and he refused, the debt is cancelled. If you don't have a contract, | i.e. you just walked in and offered cash, then the legal tender thing doesn't | apply. | -- I think you are all missing the point: an advertised price on a shelf in the store/window of a car etc is 'an invitation to treat'. You then approach the owner, or his agent, and say that you are willing to make a purchase at the posted price (or of course make any other OFFER). If this 'offer' is accepted you then have a contract, and it is at this point that the legal tender bit comes in... Presenting a twenty note for a 1 {cent,pence} item, and being answered with "I don't want that" (rather than "I can't make change for that") is reasonable cause to pick up the item, walk out the store and wait for the store to call for the police to explain the law to them :-) (in the UK anyway, it might be riskier in America :-() As with most things, I read this in a girlfriend's text-book, but a/ I may have mis-remembered, b/ even if I didn't you are not paying me for this opinion, I refuse to be held liable for more than I am being paid for it. -- Regards, Andrew Macpherson. {backbone}!ukc!stc!andrew