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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: and visual library once again
Date: 21 Oct 2005 11:29:05 -0500
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In article <1129902844.300659.188970@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> If you "sell" a program, the customer can make copies and "sell" it
>> to others.
> 
> Of course that isn't true. If someone sells you a book,
> you cannot make copies and sell those to others.

Certainly you can.  Harper & Row does that all the time after
they buy a book from the author.

Perhaps you are thinking of "sell a copy of a book".

Can you suggest a common contract we can all examine that says it
"sells a copy of software" rather than "licenses" it ?