Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Har! :-) On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Bob- > > Monday, September 19, 2011, 9:31:32 AM, you wrote: > >> I wonder how many of these EULA's we would have if no human being > > I couldn't resist... xkcd to the rescue... > > https://www.xkcd.com/501/ > > -- > -Mark Wieder >

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Monday, September 19, 2011, 9:31:32 AM, you wrote: > I wonder how many of these EULA's we would have if no human being I couldn't resist... xkcd to the rescue... https://www.xkcd.com/501/ -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-liveco

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: Or it might mean that they have taken so much from Apple already, that to take more would almost certainly result in another ugly lawsuit and this time Apple has the money to fight it. To clarify, Apple lost their suit against Microsoft on the grounds that the only protec

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wonder how many of these EULA's we would have if no human being ever pirated software? I wonder what kind of copy protection we would have if no one ever copied an MP3? All you who have or ever have had copies of music you never bought and have chimed in on the evils of EULA's or copy protecti

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
Or it might mean that they have taken so much from Apple already, that to take more would almost certainly result in another ugly lawsuit and this time Apple has the money to fight it. I have a saying: You know as much after you say "Maybe..." as you did before you said it. I imagine others co

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-18 Thread Judy Perry
We spend a good week in class going over EULAs. Quite eye-opening for them. I'm especially fond of the nuclear power plant clause in the iTunes license agreement. Judy On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Mark Wieder wrote: Silly boy. Haven't read EULAs in a while, have you? Here as an example is a snippe

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
hat includes several Android titles, so we will just have to dig up some other tool to get the job done. Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Unity-on-Windows-8-tp3819871p3820951.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list a

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/17/2011 09:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, September 17, 2011, 10:57:36 AM, you wrote: If I buy something, surely it it then mine, and I can do whatever I like with it? Silly boy. Haven't read EULAs in a while, have you? Here as an example is a snippet from Microsoft's ter

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab)
Too funny! -Original Message- From: Richard Gaskin Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 1:33 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Unity on Windows 8 Mark Wieder wrote: or, so as not to play favorites, from Apple's EULA: "The Products transacted through the S

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: or, so as not to play favorites, from Apple's EULA: "The Products transacted through the Service are licensed, not sold, to You for use only under the terms of this license" It's even better when Richard Dreyfuss does a dramatic reading of it:

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, September 17, 2011, 10:57:36 AM, you wrote: > If I buy something, surely it it then mine, and I can do whatever I like > with it? Silly boy. Haven't read EULAs in a while, have you? Here as an example is a snippet from Microsoft's terms of service: "When you purchase softwar

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > >On 09/17/2011 08:50 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > > I think Apple has been borrowing/taking from Linux for even longer. > Where > > did spaces, widgets, and even iTunes originally come from? > > > > Now, they're into buying out the hack

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/17/2011 08:50 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: I really don't mind if software companies want to rip ideas from each other It's been going on a long time I think Apple has been borrowing/taking from Linux fo

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > I really don't mind if software companies want to rip ideas from each >> other >> > > It's been going on a long time I think Apple has been borrowing/taking from Linux for even longer. Where did spaces

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond Mathewson wrote: I really don't mind if software companies want to rip ideas from each other It's been going on a long time Apple versus Microsoft: The top 20 stolen ideas of the OS wars

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/17/2011 11:41 AM, René Micout wrote: Le 17 sept. 2011 à 10:15, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : I really don't mind if software companies want to rip ideas from each other, but the fact that Microsoft seems to be shifting its attention to what is going on in the Linux world, and away from t

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread René Micout
Le 17 sept. 2011 à 10:15, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : > I really don't mind if software companies want to rip ideas from each other, > but the fact that > Microsoft seems to be shifting its attention to what is going on in the Linux > world, and away > from the Apple world might mean that it i

Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Aaah. so Microsoft have given up ripping off Apple, and have started ripping off Linux: Hey: It's Compare & Contrast time again . . . :) 1. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4117062526.html 2. http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-