Subj : Where do you sell unwanted Netware?
To   : Corey Blake
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Wed Oct 17 2001 07:40 am

Hello Corey.

16 Oct 01 16:05, Corey Blake wrote to Paul Casey:

 CB> Novell just had me deleted from Ebay permanently.
 CB> I just got off the phone with Mike Childs at Novell,
 CB> he said No One can sell Novell Products new or used
 CB> unless they are a authorized Novell dealer.
 CB> and they read all the internet newsgroups too.
 CB> I wonder if since this is a private network I can beat those rules on
 CB> here. any ideas?

They can regulate their dealers (who have voluntarily entered in a contract 
with them) and they can have support policies which refuse to transfer 
registration rights/support to the second owner, but they cannot legally 
prevent you from selling your personal copy unless you have agreed in some 
contract with Novell not to do so.  Why is it the software industry seems to 
always end up with competent companies peddling incompetent products, and the 
competent products peddled by incompetent companies?  Small wonder that Netware 
and OS/2 ended up in the same boat.

..\\ike

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