great abandonware for your classic PC - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Mar 2010

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 Message: 15 
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:09:37 -0400 
From: Keith < keithvz at verizon.net > 
Subject: Re: great abandonware for your classic PC  

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 And even if there were some type of agreements, I think
the "First Sale" 
??Doctrine would have to kick in here somewhere. 

Even Microsoft lost(ok, gave up) their copyright suit when a college kid 
??sold his Windows OS disk on ebay. 

Keith  
Also,? in October of 2009, Autodesk lost its suit against a man who bought a copy of
AutoCAD at a garage sale and then tried to sell it on eBay: 

"US court says software is owned, not licensed"
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/software_ownership_ruling/ 