Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:01:55 08/07/01
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On August 07, 2001 at 17:56:37, Jay Rinde wrote: >Alberto might be wrong, but your reasoning would drive an insane man more >insane. What Alberto says does make sense. It just isn't the way the world >works and whatever the software company says must be law because they have very >expensive lawyers working for them. Who was it that said 2 plus 2 equals 5? >Jay I view it as someone saying: 2+2=5, and this must be true since nobody is paying enough attention to contradict me (including myself). If the license says you can only have it on one computer, it means that you can only have it on one computer. It doesn't mean that you can have it on more than one computer if the others are off. You might as well try to say that it means that you can have it on more than one computer as long as you aren't using more than one at once. If they'd have meant the license to say that, it would have. The terms are what the license says, and the fact that lawyers are involved doesn't excuse breaking them. The buyer could have taken the softwre back if he doesn't agree. If someone wants to say, "I see the terms and choose to break them, because it is of benefit to me," that's one thing. At least the person doing it is taking responsibility. What bothers me when people say, "I saw these terms, but I choose to break them, and this is alright because <fill in the blank>." That's a transparent attempt to *avoid* responsibility. If people think it's wrong to do something, they shouldn't do it, or at least they should admit (to themselves at least) that they are doing something wrong (and live with their conscience). I think it's terrible when people do things they know are wrong, and yet which directly benefit them, and try to escape responsibility for it by saying they have some good reason for doing it. I think that's a bad attitude. bruce
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