Re: Just-out comment on *Eldred*

From: Keith Tabor <ket354[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 07:09:55 -0700 (PDT)

Doesn't this all go back to the fallicy of software purchases as licenses?

The thinking of the software creator being "I have this code that I have created, though it may or may not include originality. If you want this code you can not buy it from me, but you may LICENSE a copy for use as I prescribe. Otherwise you may not have the code." Sort of like renting a car with certain restrictions that you would not have in your own car (ie only for use in the state you rented in or adjacent states, no travel in foreign countries, etc.).

This seems to work for one off and high cost code, but when a consumer goes into a store and pays seventy bucks for a box with a disk, it sure seems like you bought a copy of the software like you would buy a book. Not licensed a version of the software as if you rented a car.

But that is likely another thread that has been beaten to death . . .

Keith
--- Roy Murphy <murphy[_at_]panix.com> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig when Robert A. Baron scrobe:
> > Perhaps it is the translation of the Aristotle's
> Politics that is being
> > protected.
>
> Perhaps, but Alice in Wonderland isn't a translation
> and the ebook
> version of it has restrictions as well.
>
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