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On 2 Oct 1998 18:03:54 GMT, unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote:


>
>So what? I had no hand in originally designing a hammer either, or in
>building my house. Yet I can make myself a hammer,or alter my house to
>my hearts content. Are you really advocating that the plumber who put in
>my pipes should be able to control what I do with them for the next 70
>years because he put all that time and effort into installing them?
>Your arguments are precisely the communist arguments. Why, after 150
>years of experiment with them do you still advocate them?

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>No I do not. For example, the license for Partition Magic (which I
>select only because I have had dealings with it) says I may only use
>the program on one single computer ever. That is not the right to do
>"whatever I want " with it. 

Bill, just because Partition Magic or M$ or whoever says you can't do
something doesn't mean you can't do it.  What if the manual says you
can't read it on the crapper, or you can't run your software on a
tuesday?  Do you really think it means anything.

I guarantee you, if you want to dissassemble M$ Word, make some
changes and recompile it, nobody can stop you.  What you can't do is
then take that product and sell it on the market.  (I happen to
believe that you should be able to as long as you pay some kind of
license fee to M$, but that's a different post).

As for partition magic, use it all you want for your own personal use,
on as many computers as you own, personally.

BTW, you're in Canada right?  If you were in the states, I'd offer to
defend you if M$ or the Partition people ever got on your case.