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On 11 Oct 1998 21:19:28 +0200, Klaus Schilling
<Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:

>darrow@oneillaw.com (M O'Neill) writes:
>
>> On 05 Oct 1998 20:00:41 +0200, Klaus Schilling
>> <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> >
>> >There's no way to provide proprietary software in a honest way. It doesn't 
>> >have anything to do with MS in particular.
>> >
>> >		Klaus Schilling
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> I know I'm jumping into the conversation mid stream, but could you
>> explain what you mean by this?
>
>It means that all people who put software under a proprietary copyright are
>evil and dishonest, independant how successfull they are commercially.
>
>	
>	Klaus Schilling

Klaus, you are confusing copyright with a license agreement.
Copyright is according to law.  You can't change or define the terms
of a copyright.

A proprietary license agreement is probably what you're talking about.
They are not easily enforced.  

Anyway, I can't agree with you, because your comment is too general.
I know what dishonest is, and I don't think the term is so applicable
to the issue.  Evil I can't really define, except in extreme cases.
In my experience, human beings are more complex than this, and have
varying degrees of good and bad attributes.  I don't think something
so incidental as marketing software is a good indication of a person's
moral characteristics.