Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!felix!kehr
From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Registered Users
Keywords: free software, registered users
Message-ID: <67044@felix.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 15:49:07 GMT
References: <1036@fai.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP
Reply-To: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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In article <1036@fai.UUCP> dalea@fai.UUCP (Dale M. Arends) writes:
>Here is an interesting situation.  When I purchased my hard disk from
>Jasmine, it came with the Symantec Utilities for the Macintosh (SUM) 
>on it.  This was not a surprise since they advertise the fact.  However,
>according to Symantec, that does NOT make me a valid user/owner of the
>software and, thus, cannot be a registered owner unless I purchase 
>another copy of the package.
>
>Dale

If this is true, then Jasmine's ads are certainly misleading. I would expect
to have to pay for the shareware I decided to keep and use, but I wouldn't
have expected that for the commercial software. The ad should indicate that
this is a trial copy. The availability of SUM (for free) is enough to swing
a purchase decision, where other factors are somewhat equal. If you're not
registered and entitled to upgrade prices, it's still bootleg as far as I'm
concerned.

Other disk drive manufacturers ought to take up a truth in advertising claim
against Jasmine, or at least make references to misleading ads in their own
ad copy.

Shirley Kehr