Re: CD of all Files on Asimov

[gt7116a@prism.gatech.edu (Dan Baisley)]

On 12 Sep 1996 05:28:32 GMT, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:



>
>   I own a car. I _expect_ that it'll eventually break down and become
>unusuable. (Entropy, wear and tear, Acts of God, collisions, etc) What
>do I do? Break in to a Saturn dealership and steal another one,
>claiming that my original one doesn't work anymore? That's idiotic.
>Why? Because people have realistic expectations about the lifetime of
>cars, and when one dies, they get something comparable (rarely
>identical), and hopefully a good bit better. Same thing with most of
>the applicances I around my house. I hope that they last a darn long
>time, but if they don't, I'll get new things.

Read the liscnceing agreement on any software package. You have not
purchased a copy of the software, you have purchased the media and a
liscence to use  the software on it. If you have already paid the
liscencing fee, you can legally run one copy of that software,
regardless of where you obtained it.

EX. I own a cd of windows 95, which accidentally scratched. I
re-install using my friend's cd. Who loses here? Microsucks already
got their liscencing fee, there are no additional copys of windows
that are unliscenced.