Re: Software 'licensing' <RANT>

[sbehrens@arrowweb.com (Sönke Behrens)]

dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:

>Now, given that...
>a)  Your office is locked up and vacant when you are not in it, and
>b)  No one is home if you are not there
>
>It seems obvious to me that you can only use your Gigantic Word =
Processor
>on one computer at a time.  So why is it not permissible for you to
>install that word processor on both machines?  Just because the program

I'm not really familiar with US law, but according to German law,
exactly that is permissable. You may install it on two machines as
long as the two copies can never be used at the same time.

Yours
Soenke
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