On 16 May 2006, at 14:14 , Evan wrote:
On May 16, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
If you think about it rationally, the only way you could implement
a strategy of trying to stop people abusing the license is to
employ a policy that prohibits use on more than two machines.
Why stop at two? Why not just one machine? After all, if I'm only
buying one copy, why should I even be allowed to use it on two
machines?
Is that any more or less rational than two? Why is three less
rational than two?
This was explained.
1) Desktop 2) Laptop. Lot s and lots of people have those tow
machines. A *much* smaller percentage have more than two, and an
even smaller percentage have more than 2 they would use BBEdit on at
one time. I am one of that latter group myself.
It's very simple: I bought a text editor to use. I was not notified
before purchase that I could not use this text editor in the ways
that I want.
You bought a single license, which entitles you, in that vast
majority of software purchases to run ONE copy of it an any one time
on ONE machine. Barebones, out of the kindness of their hearts,
allows you to use it concurrently on TWO machines. Nice of them,
don't you think?
Some of you seem to say, well, screw me, I didn't read the license
agreement.
You're the only one with the hostile speech so far on this thread,
although I predict that will not be the case for long if you keep it up.
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