I see your point, however according to your argument, why take any precautions at all against the illegal use of software? If people either comply with EULAs or they don't, why don't all software companies just make fully functional versions of all their products downloadable for free with the expectation that the honest people will pay while the dishonest people would have just gone and downloaded cracked versions anyway? We all know that illegal versions of Macromedia software exist, however we don't want people downloading them from us.
Christian On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 02:34 AM, Mike Alberts wrote: > No offense Christian, but IMHO this isn't a valid argument. People > either comply with the EULA or they don't. If they don't then we all > know that it's easy enough to get hacks and cracks for most any > commercial software product out there. If you are going to run a copy > of CF on an intranet and violate the terms of use, then you might as > well get a crack/serial number for the Enterprise version instead of > breaking the EULA and using the Developer Edition in a production > environment. Illegal is illegal is illegal. To me, this is just > another example of penalizing the honest people to try and stop the > tactics of the dishonest people, and frankly it does nothing to stop > the dishonest ones because they wouldn't be using the Developer > Edition in the first place. > > Just my .02 > > Mike > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
