[Gllug] license agreements

[Lee Blackwell]

There is a page on the net that I've seen recently addressing this problem
specifically, but I'll be damned if I can find it in my bookmarks.  I'll
keep searching...

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Lee Blackwell
Unix Specialist, NCS, 3com IT.
"Marriage - It's so great to find that one special
person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, dennis furey wrote:

>
> Hi Glluggers,
>
> This is my first post after lurking for a while. There was a thread
> here recently about useless windoze drivers and applications that come
> bundled with hardware and have a questionable shrinkwrap agreement,
> and it got me thinking. Would anyone care to comment on the following
> scenario?
>
> Me: I haven't accepted the software license terms and would like to
> exercise my right under the shrinkwrap agreement to return it for a
> refund.
>
> Vendor: No problem. Return both the software and the hardware to us
> for a refund.
>
> Me: The hardware is mine and you can't have it, but I'm willing to
> return the CD that has the software on it.
>
> Vendor: We won't give a refund for just the software by itself.
>
> Me: Dear M$/HP/Adobe/whoever: I'm writing to report an act of "piracy"
> by <vendor>, which has knowingly and willfully purveyed a copy of your
> software to a non-licensee and refused to honour the terms of the
> shrinkwrap agreement.
>
> Then I sit back and watch the show. If nothing happens, I punch it up
> a little by putting an advertisement on my web page to sell my
> original and legally obtained media to any competitor who would like
> to obtain a copy of the software without being bound by the normal
> agreement abridging his natural right to decompile it.
>
> Dennis
>
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