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From: Michael_Alan_Casteel@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Saleability of MS Word 1.05?
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Date: 10 Feb 88 05:59:46 GMT
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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.  If I bought a "license" to use "X" on "one computer at a time", and
decided that I would NEVER use it on ANY computer again, then it's time to
sell the "right" to use it on "one computer" to someone who might.

Lawyers can debate this until the cows come home, but then, lawyers are born
to debate things.  Meanwhile, I'll sell any software that I have and won't
use any more, if I still have enough of it to make a marketable package.  Sad
for me, I've usually lost the manual  AND the master disk, and nobody I know
wants the crummy stuff anyway.

Mike Casteel

mac@cup.portal.com
CIS 76174,2461
No clever anecdotes.  Please don't sue me.