29 Nov
2001
29 Nov
'01
11:59 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: Adobe Loss in California District Court, Good News for
ClassicCmp rs
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
This is promising. That would mean all my VAX/VMS Layered product licenses
that came on various vaxen I own(and which suffer from this issue - DEC
maintained that only the O/S was transferrable) would be lawfully mine to
use now.
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie, South Australia
geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
ICQ 1970476
I'm not sure how many of you have seen this
yet, but Adobe has lost a
suit regarding the transferrability of software licenses. The court
has rules that even if the wording of a license specifically prohibits
the resale of the software by the original buyer to a new owner, the
original owner is within their rights in doing so.
Of course, without a doubt, Adobe will likely appeal this at least as
far as the California Supreme Court. We can only hope they'll lose
there as well.
We can only hope that common sense will continue to prevail.