Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 18, 2004 06:23 AM
See the 'Sale of Goods Act' applicable to your state. In most places, software is sold as goods and not leased. What the vendor 'licence' says is not relevant - the only thing that is relevant is the law. Software is also depreciated as capital items on your tax forms, not simply paid for as a running expense. That is why software can be resold on E-bay for instance. Software leases is rare and needs to conform to certain legal restrictions also spelled out in your 'Sale of Goods Act'.
Sometimes, it helps reading your laws and not just following the 'advice' from Newsforge or Slashdot...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 18, 2004 06:23 AMSometimes, it helps reading your laws and not just following the 'advice' from Newsforge or Slashdot...
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