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Subject: Re: What are you talking about?

Author: Hristo

Date: 14:45:17 08/06/01

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On August 06, 2001 at 17:30:36, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>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."

Spoken like a good manager and future CFO. ;-)

Everyone does whats best for them. When someone prohibits me from
doing whats best for ME, I don't like it. So, I do all I can to
fix the problem, including if needed hurting THEM.

cheers.
hristo

>
>bruce



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