It seems as though YOU are the one attempting to re-define "user." If
Microsoft bought one copy of BBEdit, by your (re-)definition, user
Microsoft should be able to run BBEdit on as many machines as user
Microsoft desires.
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On May 17, 2006, at 5:38 AM, Evan wrote:
On Wednesday, May 17, 2006, at 07:33AM, Patrick Woolsey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Perhaps because it _is_ a single user license. :-)
As I've already described, the difference is that unlike most such
licenses, ours explicitly allows use of the software by the
licensed user
on two machines rather than only one.
No matter how many times you try to redefine what a user means, I
simply will not accept this lawyerly, software-licensy definition,
and I don't think that the "well, other software companies obscure
the facts in the same way as well" excuse flies, either.
I am a user. I am a single person. If I bought a single-user
license, that should allow me--a single person, a single "user" if
you will--to use the program whenever and however I want, as long
as I'm not letting anyone else use it.
What you're describing is different. It's a single-user-as-long-as-
that-user-isn't-using-more-than-two-machines license.
What I find so frustrating about this whole exchange is that Bare
Bones is (1) trying to obscure what single user means, and (2) not
admitting anywhere on their site that they have a nag box that
completely disables the product on ALL machines even if a single
user is using more than the single-user-as-long-as-that-user-isn't-
using-more-than-two-machines license allows.
Look, just admit what you're doing! What's the big deal? Obviously
you're not going to lose any of the fanboys on this list. You may
have only lost a sale to a handful of people like me who don't
pirate and who don't like artificial restrictions placed in their
software. Just own up to it! Sheesh!
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