On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:02:21 -0500 (EST), Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> Now Caldera/Lineo is no longer selling DR-DOS except in lots of 50 or more
>> copies. So where does that leave the notion of single-copy shareware?
> You don't have to buy it for single copy use, you can just download it
> from the Lineo server and use it. It's *free* for non-commercial use.
> Single copy is, by definition, non-commercial use to my understanding.
> Commercial use would just about have to involve multiple copies. wouldn't
> it?
According to my understanding, commercial use would include the use of it
in conducting any part of your business operations, even if you were running
just one copy of it, and even if you were running it only at home to help in
operating just a home business, such as a home distributorship like Amway,
or Avon, or Mary Kay Cosmetics, for example. Commercial use is any use for
the business of making money. Commercial use would of course include
spamming and also perfectly legal advertising as well.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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