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Article #210Re: new powers for employers to read employees' email
From: Jason Clifford
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:04
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:04
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Angus McBastard wrote: > > Wrong analogy. I think you're trying to suggest something more along the > > lines of licensing you to perform the song in a particular venue only for > > you to find that your license is violated if you perform the song in a > > different key or with a slight variation of the wording that would be more > > appropriate to the audience. > > Well it wasn't my analogy, but I would point out that in this analogy, > the "source-code" is the song itself, and it is distributed free with > every recording, whatever the key :-) What value is there in seeing the source if the license specifically forbids you to do anything with it? > > Perhaps however if people continue to purchase from such companies this > > problem cannot be resolved. Alas Microsoft has a monopoly which severely > > reduces the ability of consumers to choose an alternative. > > Well most open-source people would I think say that the problem is > endemic to the production system. Consumers have always had an > alternative, but they've never had the collective knowledge to realise > when they are being stolen from. As the producer of a Linux distribution I have to disagree with you. Until very recently it has not been possible for consumers to even obtain Free Software and shareware doesn't really offer a better license model. Jason Clifford
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