On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> In: > > http://www.ibm.com/legal/us/en/ > Terms of use > > I read: > > ... IBM grants you non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited permission > to access > and display the Web pages within this site, solely on your computer > and for your > personal, non-commercial use of this Web site. > > Does "personal, non-commercial use" prohibit my using the Web pages in > connection > with my employment? Does "your computer" mean a computer to which I have > legal > title, or any computer that my employer or perhaps a public library allows > me to use? > If I format the pages on a corporate server and display them on a thin > client on my > desk, does this conform to the TOS? What's the definition of "your" and > "personal"? > IBM Legal ought to jump in. "We're just being ultra-careful, but of > course we can > exercise discretion concerning ordinary use" or "Lawyers do that sort of > stuff all the > time; it doesn't mean anything; it's just CYA" isn't very comforting. > > Am I in violation of the TOS by quoting the excerpt above, or does Fair > Use excuse me? > > Perhaps I should submit a RCF. > > -- gil > > I think you are a bit tongue-in-cheek, but in today's litigious world, who knows? But one thing that I relatively "new" and which I despise is that, unlike with the old BookManager and PDF, the above definitely means that I __CANNOT__ make a copy of the site for off-line perusal. So if I have no Internet connectivity, I have no documentation. Nor can I make hard copy of the pages. Well, not without violating copyright. There are reasons why I am a member of the FSF and use GNU/Linux. -- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
