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From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware & Honesty (Was: Software (and other kinds of) copying)
Message-ID: <1076@cpocd2.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 88 20:13:10 GMT
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <39450@sun.uucp> <6649@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <469@aimt.UUCP>
Reply-To: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Systems Organization, Chandler AZ
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In article <6649@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
> As for fair, that means according to the rules. The rules (laws) in
> the US state that if you give somebody something, it's *theirs*. You
> can get neither payment nor the return of the thing, unless there's a
> prior agreement about such.

In article <469@aimt.UUCP> breck@aimt.UUCP (Robert Breckinridge Beatie) writes:
>I think that the laws state that you can not be required to pay for unsolicited
>stuff that you get in the mail.  But you do not get to keep the stuff.

In at least some states, the last sentence is false.  If someone sends you
unsolicited goods in the mail, they're yours, and you owe nothing.  That makes
Mike more right than Robert.

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	Howard A. Landman
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