---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Selling software? Date: Thursday, 16. August 2012 From: John Callahan <[email protected]> To: "List G3-5" <[email protected]> > Is it legal to sell software that you have purchased from Apple, for > instance? Thanks
That depends on the current legal practice in your country, I guess. I come from Austria: in a lot of European countries it is the law that you are allowed to resell software that you purchased, whatever an EULA may tell you. This is even the case if you only have the right to USE a software (as opposed to OWN a binary form of it). Companies like Apple, Microsoft, /you name it/ may not be happy about it, but they cannot act against prevailing case law in a country where they sell their products. It is only natural that Apple starts to sell their software exclusively via their own AppStore… It is way easier to control a purchase that is linked to a specific customer account than one sold in “hard copy” form like on a CD/DVD that can easily be sold second hand. I don’t know exactly how this is handled in other parts of the world… Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
