Re: Licencing (Quite Long)

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From: Alias (maskedandanonymous_at_aka.com)
Date: 05/15/04 

Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 21:06:18 +0200

"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospamcableone.net> wrote

While
the law sometimes admittedly isn't of very much value if it isn't
enforced, it's still the law.

Bruce Chambers <<<

And as Prohibition taught us, disobeyance is a very effective way to change
laws, as was it when Afro Americans went into the "wrong" restaurant or sat
at the front of the bus.

As the law of a free market teaches us, price your product too high and
you'll open a black market business. Yeah, an illegal one and you don't have
to argue copyright for me to agree with you on that one.

What MS and others have done is interesting, though. They've made a
product -- software -- but sell it as a service because your ownership and
usage of said product is dictacted and serverely restricted (compared to
what you could do with it) by the seller. Can you imagine how far car makers
would get if they insisted on charging you extra for every different road,
street, freeway or highway that you use your "licence to own a car" on???

No matter how you slice it, MS and the other "activation" and "license"
software companies are biting their nose off to spite their face and so are
their toady apologists.

Alias

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