Software has become a term applied to a lot of things. You still have to
read the license to understand the difference between the generic term and
the specifics of a published edition. Even open software is licensed.

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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)" wrote in
message ...
What Alias is getting at is that all web sites, and stores, sell you
software. Don't they all have software departments, T.V. departments,
appliance departments etc.

Yet after they have sold you the "software", they try to tell you that you
have bought a license. Well, people DID NOT buy it in the license
department - did they?

Based upon that fact, and that even Microsoft offers you software
downloads (not license downloads) I think I also am going to begin to
state that I OWN the "software". The license that was in the package is
ancillary to the fact of my purchase, and I don't really have to even read
it.

The software is mine, whether I have a license or not!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message
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I have a degree in English from the University of Texas Arlington and my
comprehension skills are fine. If you install software without reading
through the EULA then the problem is not comprehension, but reading at
all.

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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"Alias" wrote in message
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"Colin Barnhorst" wrote

If you can read the website, you can read the EULA. If you just click
through it during an install, that's your issue.

Huh? I didn't say anything about reading or clicking through the scammy
EULA, now did I, sport? Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Is
English not your first language? The web sites I was referring to and I
made it clear by typing *computer web sites" say *software*, not
"licences". Yaknow, the ones that sell Microsoft *Software*?
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Alias



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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"Alias" wrote in message
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"Colin Barnhorst" wrote

You were sold the licenses, not the software.

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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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We know about the licencing scam. It's a scam. It's highway robbery.
EVERY computer web site says "software", not "licences".

Alias