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Old 11-19-2009, 12:08 PM   #253
Lo Zeno
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
Basically, if something looks like a sale, smells like a sale and is presented as a sale? It's a sale.
I'm starting to think that you are being elusive on purpose again, so I'll put my question on the most detailed way possible.
In what a licensing contract should ever look, smell, or be presented differently than a sale? Given that in both cases I see a customer approaching a reseller who give him a product (in case of a sale) or the digital support which will provide the service (in case of licencing a software), given that in both cases the customer pays and the reseller gives a receipt or a similar notice like "I received money from you in exchange for this product/service", where should be the difference?

Seriously: I go to the mall, grab a pair of shoes, I pay. It's a sale.
I go to the mall, I grab a DVD, pay the DVD: it's a licenced software.
And it's perfectly fine, but you say that no, in UK it's not a licenced software because it's being sold as in a normal sale. Why? Where is the difference?

As I asked before:

How should they sell it, and how is it actually sold instead?
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