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Lease eh, well then just play on words like they do. Give TS4 away and
charge for shipping and handing. Legal then?
Robert
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?
>
>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.
>
> > Even if it was enforceable what would the damage to Omega
> > be from a private sale?
>
>For most software, not all THAT much. Most people keep using the
>software they buy so the secondary market is relatively small.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Gary
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