Re: Consideration in a Shrinkwrap Contract

At 12:52 PM -0400 10/25/00, Ralph Clifford wrote:
> It's not the practice that is the problem, it is the methodology. If
>you go to a car company to lease a vehicle, the parties will sit down and
>execute a lease. Only then is the car delivered. It is the after-the-fact
>attempt to transform what was a sale into a license that triggers the
>problem.

And your solution is that the vendors of software need to abandon mass market distribution and require each purchaser to "COME ON IN AND NEGOTIATE A DEAL THAT CAN'T BE BEAT...." And when you find yourself paying the transaction costs of an automobile lease, you can console yourself with the assurance that there's no mileage limitation on the deal.

John Noble Received on Thu Oct 26 2000 - 05:26:08 GMT