On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Kent Borg wrote:
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:14:00AM -0700, Mike
Ford wrote:
Abandoneware is one thing [...]
Wants some fun, buy an EXPENSIVE sealed retail
box new old stock product,
then without opening the envelope with the discs, send a letter to the
company informing them that you are NOT willing to comply with the terms of
their license agreement and want a refund of the retail price of the
package.
Interesting idea.
If I buy a book I own that copy, not the right to copy it, not a
"license" forming an agreement between me and some other party, but I
own the book itself. Familiar stuff.
This leads to an interesting situation. Can you make, say, 50,000,000
copies of a book, and send it to its rightful owner?
Peace... Sridhar
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