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No. You are the only person that can use it. Technically you cannot even give
it away for free.
In a message dated 6/28/01 5:47:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
robert.cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Lease eh, well then just play on words like they do. Give TS4 away and
> charge for shipping and handing. Legal then?
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> Robert
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> At 04:21 PM 6/28/01 -0600, Gary Fritz wrote:
> > > As to the restriction in the license how can Omega unilaterally
> > > restrict a licensee's right to sell the product he owns?
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> >Guess what. You **DON'T** own the software you "bought." Read
> >through the fine print on just about any software you buy, and you'll
> >find you have been granted a *lease*. And since Omega (or whoever)
> >still legally owns the software, they have the right to restrict who
> >can use it.
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> > > Even if it was enforceable what would the damage to Omega
> > > be from a private sale?
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> >For most software, not all THAT much. Most people keep using the
> >software they buy so the secondary market is relatively small.
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> >But IMHO Omega's business model has always revolved around a pump &
> >dump strategy -- pump a bunch of newbies through the pipe, dump them
> >when they crash & burn, and sell the product to a bunch of new
> >newbies.
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> >If the crashing newbies (a very large percentage of Omega's buyers,
> >I'd bet) sell their TS to other newbies, that removes a very large
> >percentage of Omega's sales.
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> >Now that TSPro is going to a subscription model, Omega (TRAD) is
> >finally going to be $$motivated$$ to keep their customers happy and
> >successful. But they still don't want people buying used copies of
> >TS4 or TS2k -- they want them leasing TSPro.
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> >Gary
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