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Re: lease/buy?

From: John Ross <jross-ml@netshare400.com>
> I talked with an IBM business partner about two months ago about that and
> he said the software you buy. And when you could not transfer it, that made
> sense. But now I think you can transfer Licensed program products (LPP). So
> it would seam like you should be able to lease them, if not at least now
> you should be able to sell it after you are done with the software. IBM
> really needs to have a good page on what is allowed and what is not with
LPP.

and the OS itself? does one have to "buy" (in quotes because one still
doesn't "own" it) the OS? Doesn't that comes with the box?
I get several different answers; it is hard to get to the bottom of this.

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