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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