We all know companies make the T's & C's to suit themselves as much as
possible, giving as little as possible while gaining as much as possible.
I feel that EULAs, copyright and patent laws have gone well beyond too
far. They have gone so far that corporations are far more important than
people, than facts, than truth (not capitalised). Their lawyers rewrite
history, twist laws, and jeopardise markets.
They are morally indefensible in this day where we must use technology
to get things done.
Personally, I don't pay too awful much attention to EULAs. I prefer
common sense. Personal use, don't destroy other's businesses. I do wish
others felt the same way.
The thing that worries me the most here is that when every new medium
came along (printed sheet music, player pianos, radio, TV, cassette
tapes, fax machines, telephones, computers, internet) the entrenched
media moguls have railed against the tech, and tried to protect their world.
Every time before this, they've been utterly defeated by reality and
common sense.
This time, I'm afraid they're winning. Closed shops, licensed software,
UEFI limited hardware, hardware you can't open, copyright extended
beyond all reason, IP used as a weapon of business.
Pretty soon we'll all have to pay Apple royalty for breathing iAir.
Feh.
I think the only thing keeping the corporates honest is Linux in all its
forms. Without Linux, there'd be no Android and Apple would well and
truly own the tech world. *shiver*
Once Linux is killed off, I'm going to start growing turnips.
-Ken
On 07/09/2012 19:55, Richmond wrote:
I am asking this question for a number of reasons:
1. If I buy a book I can, if I want, use it for lighting a fire,
throwing at the cat, and so on. As the book
is my property I can do what I like with it. The intellectual
property contained within the book is,
generally, restricted by copyright saying whether I can copy bits
of it, resell it, lend it to friends,
lend it while charging a fee for its use, and so on. However, the
copyright restrictions do not tell me
where I can read the book (in the bath?) or how (standing on my
head?).
2. I am running Mac Snow Leopard in VMplayer on Non-Apple hardware.
Before I continue, I should point out that as I own a physical install
disk for Mac OS Snow Leopard
I don't feel MORALLY wrong running the software it contains in VMplayer.
I am running software I own
in one instance and do not feel that because I bought Ferrari hubcaps
for my Lada I should be forced
to buy a Ferrari.
3. Other people on the Use-List must face similar questions.
4. I really wonder if this belongs in the same category as the previous
set of postings about
software piracy - I don't feel it does.
A. How legally binding is a EULA?
B. I have connected to Apple via software upgrade, so, one assumes, they
are well aware that at
least one person "out there" is violating the EULA.
C. Anybody can purchase software online or in a shop without background
checks to see whether
one has the necessary hardware to keep to the EULA.
Of course this can extend to Livecode, and all the products we folk are
doing our best to produce
with it.
There are also some 'funny' rumours flying about that Microsoft are
doing some deals with PC makers that will lock the machines in some way
so that they will only function with Microsoft Operating Systems, rather
than Linux, UNIX, Haiku and so on.
Richmond.
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