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From: "Dean McEwan" <dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org>
To: lm@bitmover.com, "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:25:11 +0000
Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting,
    expiration, verification) NON HARDWARE BASED.
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> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:36:43AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Basically, in many states in the USA, you can't sell or
> > lease something that will become worthless or unusable if
> > the seller or leasor no longer exists. 
> 
> CAD software is mostly leased these days.  That would seem to contradict
> your position.  Can you quote some laws which say that leasing software
> is illegal?

Not only that but you can charge less :-)
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> Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm

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