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From: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Saleability of MS Word 1.05?
Message-ID: <8146@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 88 19:02:18 GMT
References: <110fordjm@byuvax.bitnet> <41216@sun.uucp> <3080@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <3080@cup.portal.com> Michael_Alan_Casteel@cup.portal.com writes:
>Sorry, I couldn't stand a reply to the question "can I sell my old, outmoded
>Word 1.05 to someone else when I buy Word 3.0?", except in the enthusiastic
>affirmative!!   YES!! Sell it, if you can find a buyer!!!
>
>The legalese of the license agreement may SEEM to prohibit it, but then,
>legalese is designed to mean different things to different people; so, we
>normal humans revert to "common sense", "fair play", and similar outmoded
>modes.

NO!  By upgrading for a smaller fee, you merely EXTEND your liscening
agreement to cover Word 3.01.  Legally, you are NOT allowed to sell
an old copy.  It would be the same thing as making a copy of your
Word 3.01 disk and selling that.  If you wanted to sell your copy of
1.05, you should have bought a BRAND NEW COPY of Word 3.01 with a
SEPARATE liscensing agreement.  Two copies, you're entitled to sell
one.

FLAME ON
The idiocy of your statement "legalese is designed to mean different
things to different people" appalls me.  You're merely reading the
liscensing agreement and making out of it what YOU WANT, not what
it is.
FLAME OFF

Ken


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