robert ... i disagree ... now, if minitab will reimburse him for NOT
selling them ... that is a different story ... but, if they won't AND he
has not USED the project ... i see nothing to prevent him from obtaining a
return on his investment ...
the mistake he made was to "advertise" them ...
he surely and legally could have sold them at fair market value to someone
who wanted a new UNopened copy of rel 12 ...
i bet that penn state, which sells scads of these ... has some arrangement
that IF a new release comes out while psu has a stock of the previous
version ... that EITHER psu can unload these (as long as they don't claim
they are the new version) or, will get replacements of the new version if
minitab does not want the previous version sold anymore ...
i don't care what the fine print says ... you can't prevent the holder and
purchaser of the product to bite the bullet ...
if he buys the media ... and the box ... and the manuals ... then he can
sell the media, the box, and the manuals ...
At 10:42 AM 10/11/00 -0300, Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote:
>Peter Lewycky wrote:
> >
> > Presumably you paid for these copies and are their owner. How can they
> > legally prevent you from selling them? Are they offering to buy them
> > back?
>
> Er, no, that's not how it usually works. If you read the fine
> print on
>most software packages you are *not* the owner of anything but the
>media, the printed manual, and the box it came in; you are
>_licensed_to_use_ the software, said license often specifically stated
>not to be transferrable.
cmon ... minitab will sell the product to anyone ... they don't "approve"
the purchaser ... so, what is really meant here by being "non
transferrable"? ... it is not like a franchise ... where the franchise
holder HAS been approved in some way ... for example, not anyone can get
another mcdonalds franchise in an area ... but software is NOT like that ...
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