One of Your Colleagues Has Purchased a New Personal Computer

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Essay

One of your colleagues has purchased a new personal computer for her husband. She just read an article online at the National Safety Council Web site, and learned that an estimated 500 million computers were obsolete by the year 2007. She also learned that an estimated 1 billion floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs end up in landfills every year with more than 2 million tons of computer parts which contain toxic substances. Your colleague wonders if she should include software along with the old computer when she donates or sells it. What would you tell her about the legal transfer of software?

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