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From: jabusch@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: software protection - dongles &
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 14:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 14:53:00 1985
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	I don't see where the original author said anything about using 
the software on several cpu's simultaneously.  Maybe I can't read as much
into Henry Schaffer's text as some can.  All I can read is that he is 
interested in using the software on whichever cpu it is needed on at the
time, but no mention of several users at once.  When you hire someone
as a resource, you have them work in whatever office is available.  I 
propose that employee hiring agreements/licenses state that they are
single office space employees, and can never work in another spot, no
matter how short a time.
	This type of moving of people and manipulation of resources used
to be referred to as management, and effective resourcec management allows
one to get the most benefits from the available resources.  Managers take
their computers home if need be, they take books home if need be, they
take anything they need to complete the job at hand.  Why not software???
	The licensing agreements are incredibly ridiculous.  That's why
I don't sign them and send them in.  I don't need software that can't be
used to its fullest extent, short of duplication!  I need tools.  I can
go to Sears and buy a screwdriver and then take it home, or to the office
or wherever I please.  Why not software???   If I am not making a copy,
then the only reason holding me back would be some stupid license that
some jerk wrote up that stipulates otherwise.  I would not buy anything
else like that, so why software???  I notice that *my* pen, which *I*
bought, works equally well at home and at the office.  I have invested
more money in pens and writing equipment over the years than in software
and yet there is no license agreement on the ink pen!
	I have also seen nothing in the copyright laws that requires
me not to use a book or software at home if I bought it for the office.
Until these change, ......... 

	John Jabusch