Although we're starting to drift a bit:
Rarely is software actually sold. Normally only the license. Usually, or at
least quite often, those licenses can be resold along with the disks, but
that depends on the original license. At the corporate level it is almost
unheard of to be able to resell a license.
> Is AO by K6STI?
>
> If so, his license agreement pretty much states that you do not own it. I
That is pretty much "boiler plate" for nearly all software. I know of no
current soft ware licenses without it.
> remember for RITTY it stated something to the effect that you do not own a
> copy of the software, he is licensing that you can use it and you alone. I
> do not have the license file handy for RITTY but someone could check. This
> would mean that someone else does not have the right to 're-sell' it.
<snip>
>>I wonder what the copyright laws have to say about this type of
>>situation; when the copyright holder will not sell it to customers or a
Copyright has nothing to do with who a vendor sells to or does not sell.
> select group
>>of customers?
>
> Most likely, absolutely nothing unless this guy wrote it with government
> money. He doesn't HAVE to sell it to anyone.
>
> It's similar to the people who were complaining that the programming
> providers scrambling their content on C-band satellite. If it's private
Scrambled TV is an entirely different kettle of fish, but no different than
copy protection.
Who they sell to is a slightly different and regulated matter.
> content, then they don't HAVE to let anyone have access to it. Of course,
> they wouldn't stay in business very long if the didn't, but...
They probably won't any way. Most of the programming has moved to digital
on the small dishes. I was still maintaining my subscription to the major
networks on C-band as I couldn't get them on the small dish, but there were
so few subscribers left that the price was as much for the 4 networks as it
was for a pretty comprehensive package on The Dish Network. OTOH it had
reached to point where the major netwroks had nothing left to offer that
interested me so I no longer get them and that saves me nerly $200 a year.
But back to the software: Not selling to a particular group is similar to
the early days in computers where programs were priced for corporate users
as no one figured individuals would ever have computers. That led to the
beginnings of wide spread piracy. If you don't sell to a group and they
want it, they *will* get it, or at least some will.
Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com
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