Subj : Where do you sell unwanted Netware?
To   : Mike Tripp
From : Corey Blake
Date : Tue Oct 23 2001 12:13 am

RE: Where do you sell unwanted Netware?
BY: Mike Tripp to Corey Blake on Wed Oct 17 2001 02:40 pm

 > 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 th
 > competent products peddled by incompetent companies?  Small wonder that Netw
 > and OS/2 ended up in the same boat.
 > 
 > .\\ike
 > 
well theycan ban you from Ebay because Ebay goes by what they say without
question. and they are sueing people on the usenet newsgroups for sell new and
used Netware. err, or I can take it to a local dealer and get 10 cents on the
dollar.

-Corey

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