Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!nbires!ico!ism780c!mikep From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: What a dongle is (Was Re: Copy protection: boycott it!) Message-ID: <6965@ism780c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 16:28:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780c.6965 Posted: Thu Jul 23 16:28:26 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:32:14 EDT References: <291@l5comp.UUCP> <1131@killer.UUCP> <2802@phri.UUCP> <2230@bnrmtv.UUCP> <305@sering.cwi.nl> Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 19 In article <305@sering.cwi.nl> fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani) writes: > If I hate _ONE_ thing in life its other people bothering > about what is best for me ! The sellers seem to forget > that I _BOUGHT_ their product, so its my property and I > should be able to use it my way. Well, that's not so true. When you go to a store and pick up a copy of say Lotus 123, you didn't buy that package but a liscense to use the software that is enclosed. I don't understand all the implications, but I do know that there are a hell of a lot of legal spaghetti in the liscensing agreements (except for Borland's). MikeP -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The company and all my associates and friends and ESPECIALLY the government put me up to say all this useless trash. MikeP {seismo|sdcrdcf}!ism780c!mikep "Some of my best friends are Bigots..."