Yes, I thought of that analogy. The problem is, as others have said on this thread, I don't believe Apple's EULA is legal whereas car lease conditions are.
It's not a case of morality, piracy, honesty or any other human traits that have been mentioned during this thread. I simply do not believe their EULA is legal which puts Apple in the wrong, not me. Others have a different opinion and will stick to the EULA. That's fine, it's just a different opinion I have no problem with Apple "behaving like a business", they have a responsibility to their shreholders to do so, nor would I expect them to provide any support if I broke their EULA terms, nor do I blame them for trying to create a closed, sanitized environment for their software to make support easier. I like Apple hardware and software, use it as my main platform for programming and personal use. I just happen to believe their EULA is legally unenforceable. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > > It's unclear to me why the fact that I buy a license to use > > software versus owning the actual software itself has any > > effect on what I choose to do with it. Either way, I pay > > money to Apple to be able to use it. That's a different > > issue than what the EULA says regarding not using it on > > non-Apple hardware of course but interesting nevertheless. > > A good "real world" parallel is buying a car vs leasing it. Your lease can > forbid all sorts of activities, because at the end of the day, you don't > own > the car. > > You don't buy a license. You pay money to be permitted to use under > specific > terms granted. Software is intellectual property. > > Best regards, > > Lynn Fredricks > President > Paradigma Software > http://www.paradigmasoft.com > > Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode