Hi,
here's an example why I personally think that the discussed dialogue helps
people to remember the terms of use and that it is as such a good thing:
I work at a very small university institution. Money is very scarce here
and it's thus very hard to convince your institute's head to invest into
something "mundane" such as computer hardware & software. This makes it
very tempting to people to forget about licenses. Of course, this is no
excuse to break an existing rule. But we're human, after all, and if
things are to easy, in situations of trouble even honest people might
get accustomed to illegitimate use habits.
At our institution there was only one copy of BBEdit, and the decision
making persons saw no need to buy more copies although more people
started using it. BBEdit's little pop-up dialogue served as a fair
reminder to the people that they were doing something illegitimate and
it helped to convince them to buy one license per user. So I think that,
although the dialogue may not help against severe software pirating, it
helps to remind rather honest people to do the right thing.
As others have pointed out, I understand that a software company has to
make trade-offs to decide between fair and illegitimate use. And while
this may restrict some perfectly fair use, I consider this trade-off
generally as a good thing with which we should learn to live.
Matthias
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Matthias Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.extracts.de
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