Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:20:53 06/16/98
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On June 16, 1998 at 00:15:25, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On June 15, 1998 at 22:12:33, Kim Hvarre wrote: >>SSDF is a "closed", i.e. memberbased club. They can test what ever they want to. >>And "publish" the list among themselves - whatever lacking to other places isn't >>SSDF' problem and not legal related. >> >>The draw back is the fact, that the members in the future will tend to test only >>the programs, the members themselves are interessted in, i.e. want to buy! >> >>Perhaps this is a solution anyway. SSDF (again) being 100% independent of >>relations to the programmers? >> >>kim > >I am allowed to listen to music I bought. I am allowed to make a backup for my >private purpose. Same with books. Software. >I am not allowed to lend it, not for money or for free. I am not allowed to >publish or broadcast or send it to many people ! >If I would invite many friends, and they would have to pay, me or somebody else, >to listen to music, that is not my own, this would be against the law. Because >it is a public broadcast. That is not allowed. >Same with books, software ?! > >The author has to allow that you USE his product for boradcasting purpose. >Especially when somebody pays you, or seombody else for the service. >No problem what you do in private. But in the moment somebody else is involved >and he pays you, it suddenly gets a different quality. this isn't the same thing at all... When I buy a copy of a commercial program, I buy the right to run it on one pc. *anyone* can come by and play that program running on the machine I installed it for. And there's no license agreement that would even attempt to prevent that, because no one would buy the software ever. Also, once I buy a piece of software, I can use it however I want, whether to play against it myself, or to play it against other programs, and I am also free to report any results I want, so long as they are factual, to avoid any sort of libel action... So the SSDF can obviously test any program they can legally buy, and they can publish the results if they want. Whether they would buy multiple copies of rebel to test is another issue. But they obviously can legally do so if they wish...
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