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Subject: Re: What are you talking about?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 14:30:36 08/06/01

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On August 06, 2001 at 16:08:39, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>Besides, I also have the right to install the same
>software in computers that I do not use at the same time. i.e., my computer at
>home and the one at my office at work. Don't I have that right?

This seems awful thin, but it reminds me of something that happened with I
worked for the Washington State Library (1986).

We were using Microsoft C to build a product (we had to be some of the few
people in all of state government using C to do anything, and it was also one of
the first applications that used a CD-ROM).  There were four of us operating out
of one cube, each of us armed with a PC clone running at 8 mhz, 640K of memory,
and either a 10- or a 20- megabyte hard drive.  These were hot machines.

One day a couple of us figured out that installing the C compiler on all four
machines violated the license.  We told our boss about this, and his reply was:

"Make sure that only one of you is compiling at any given time."

bruce



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