Adobe Loss in California District Court, Good News for ClassicCmp rs

From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
Date: Thu Nov 29 16:59:30 2001

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Subject: Re: Adobe Loss in California District Court, Good News for
ClassicCmp rs


> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure how many of you have seen this yet, but Adobe has lost a
> > suit regarding the transferrability of software licenses. The court
> > has rules that even if the wording of a license specifically prohibits
> > the resale of the software by the original buyer to a new owner, the
> > original owner is within their rights in doing so.
> >
> > Of course, without a doubt, Adobe will likely appeal this at least as
> > far as the California Supreme Court. We can only hope they'll lose
> > there as well.
>
> We can only hope that common sense will continue to prevail.

This is promising. That would mean all my VAX/VMS Layered product licenses
that came on various vaxen I own(and which suffer from this issue - DEC
maintained that only the O/S was transferrable) would be lawfully mine to
use now.

Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie, South Australia
geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
ICQ 1970476
Received on Thu Nov 29 2001 - 16:59:30 GMT

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