Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kitty.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!kitty!peter From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: software copying and protection (a personal opinion) Message-ID: <264@kitty.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 10:49:02 EDT Article-I.D.: kitty.264 Posted: Wed Aug 7 10:49:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 23:55:18 EDT References: <409@brl-tgr.ARPA> <95@duvel.UUCP> Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY Lines: 19 > Suppose you have this fine multi-user system. Suppose you've got that nice > whatever-it-must-do package. Since you're in a multi-user environment, you > might want to have more than one copy of the documentation. Fine, most > companies will be glad to sell additional copies to you. > > But next year, when your system is overloaded, and you can have another > system from your management, what do you do? > Its easy to copy the contents of your disk onto the new system. This is > handy, because you can immediately use your new system fully. > People are used to have the package available, so when it isn't there, > you get complaints "Where is that !@#$ package!". Hardly anyone is > going to ask "Hey mr. Systemmanager, we've got this new machine. But have > you also paid the package once again?". If you do that (as a user) then > you are the exception to the rule :-). Is this a second system or a replacement system? If it's a replacement then you damned well have the right (or should have the right) to use whatever- it-is on the new one. If it's a second system then you should get a site license.