[monochrom] first-sale doctrine about to fall

2010-09-13 Thread Franz Ablinger
100 years are enough... ...especially for the software industry, as a recurring user fee is much better then one-time-money for a licence. One step towards this goal of renting all the software instead of selling it is to revoke the user's right to resell software, the so-called first-sale doctr

Re: [monochrom] first-sale doctrine about to fall

2010-09-13 Thread Rainer Fuegenstein
FA> And please don't tell me that I only have to change the brand and boycott the vendor - they are _all_ on FA> board of this scary dreadnought. open source auch ? ps: ;-) -- Unix gives you just enough rope to hang you

Re: [monochrom] first-sale doctrine about to fall

2010-09-13 Thread Franz Ablinger
Nein, es ging um Bezahlware. Was ich mich frage: Wie ist das bei embeded systems? Wie sieht die EULA eines Autos aus? Weil de facto sind Autos mittlerweile Computer mit Rädern. Wenn ich ein Betriebssystem nicht mehr verkaufen darf, warum sollte ich dann ein Auto verkaufen dürfen? fra - Ur