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In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.97072...@inet1.inetworld.net>,
   Rhett Stroh <rh...@inet1.inetworld.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Encoder wrote:
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>> When i buy a tv from sears, i dont call up RCA to make sure if its
>> alright to sell it at my garage sale.  Whether the fat cats in  the
>> software industry like it or not, you give up all rights to that unit
>> that I bought upon sale.  Just like a tv or a piece of furniture. This
>> intellectual property crap is just a ploy to steal money from
>> unsuspecting buyers.  Its the biggest racket since insurance.  Put out
>> very little and make em pay ALOT.
>> 
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>Aha! At last you start to see the light! You don't have to call a
>software house and check if you can sell your copy of their game,
>either! You can sell the whole thing, single-site license and all.
>If you keep a copy and use, however, you are stealing.
That's correct. You sold your single-site license to the person you sold it 
to. Therefore you can't use it anymore.
>JUST LIKE if
>get some electronic components and duplicate that TV. That's right,
>if you buy a bunch of capacitors and resistors, and some pc board, 
>and a picture tube, and then copy that RCA TV and build one exactly
>like it (or even mostly like it) and then sell that, you just broke
>the law.
Wrong. You built it themselves. Unless you somehow make a blueprint of the TV, 
copy ALL parts of the TV, assemble it, slap an RCA sticker on it, then sell 
it, THEN it's illegal.
>That's right. RCA has patents on their designs and you are
>stealing their design. Do you get it yet? Ever wonder why state of
>the art TVs cost twice as much as old ones the same size? Only a
>small part is the cost of material. RCA and Sony et al have to 
>recoup the cost of designing the new features into the set. After
>that's been done, the prices start coming down. 
>
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