Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 19:14:46 08/07/01
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On August 07, 2001 at 19:01:55, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 Much better than your original post. No argument here! Jay
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