Re: Software 'licensing' <RANT>

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 24 Feb 1997 00:06:22 -0500, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave
Althoff) wrote:

>Remember how it was in the old days?  You bought a piece of
>software...say, Appleworks, for example.  You have a computer at home; you
>have a computer at work.  You go to work, you stick the AppleWorks disk
>into the drive, you do your AppleWorking.  Great.  Now, it is quitting
>time, so just before you leave, you throw your AppleWorks disks into your
>briefcase and take them home.  Then you can do more AppleWorking on your
>own stuff on your own time on your own computer at home.  And as nearly as
>I can tell, this is perfectly legal.  You bought a copy of the software
>for your use; you have only one copy (unless you count your archival
>backup in your closet), but you use it...the same copy...on both machines.

Things can be done like this today as well.  You just need to buy a
Zip, Jaz, Magneto-optical.  This way, you are basically carrying
around your hard drive from home to work and back.  You only have the
software installed on one system at a time and it is impossible to use
it on two machines at the same time.

It just takes the right hardware to continue working this way.