wnp@iiasa.ac.at (wolf paul) (11/16/90)
>In article <1990Nov15.000626.25016@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> stevo@uniblab.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Steve Groom) writes: >>Read the license. There's a reason they make you open the triple-sealed >>packages to get to the diskettes. If you don't like the license don't >>use the software. Ah, but they only make you open the triple-sealed packages to get to the disks AFTER YOU HAVE BOUGHT the program; they have no legal right to tell me what to do with the stuff AFTER I HAVE BOUGHT it. Unless they require assent to the license agreement BEFORE taking my money and handing over the product, any restrictions stated in the docs or on separate pieces of paper headed "License Agreement" are legally irrelevant. I bought the package because I was offered a PROGRAM for sale; all of a sudden I find out that what they intended to sell was only the right to use the program? That's their problem, they should have told me before taking my money! -- Wolf N. Paul, UNIX SysAdmin, IIASA, A - 2361 Laxenburg, Austria, Europe PHONE: +43-2236-71521-465 FAX: +43-2236-71313 UUCP: uunet!iiasa!wnp INTERNET: wnp%iiasa@relay.eu.net BITNET: tuvie!iiasa!wnp@awiuni01.BITNET