At 14:22 21-09-01 -0400, you wrote: > > At 10:06 21-09-01 -0400, Austin Franklin wrote: > > > > >These software EULAs can say/claim anything they want, but the law can be > > >entirely different than what they claim! I do not know your specific > > >situation, and I am in no way endorsing software piracy. > > > > Let's not inadvertently misdirect the issue here. There is no question of > > piracy and frankly I don't know why you'd even bring it up. > >I did not mention piracy at all in relation to your specific issue, and as >far as you were concerned there was no question of piracy. I only mentioned >piracy in relation to my statement of possibly "ignoring" (certain clauses >in) EULAs. I never believed your situation could be characterized in any >sense as piracy! Please accept my sincerest apologies for overreacting and being so touchy. I have no acceptable excuse for it:-( I'm just jittery because my son is in the USAF and I want to see him safe and don't want to inadvertently create a problem for him. >My opinion is also that any software you have original disks etc. for is >yours to give to anyone you want to, providing you didn't keep any >copies/backups...once you give it away, you have no more rights to use it. >This is what sounds to me like your situation. If I understand correctly, >you have the original disks, aren't using them, and just want to give them >away. Yes that's true. EULA's must be the most arcane (deliberately?) obfuscated documents in computerdom. I figure that I wrote a lot of crap during the years that I was a technical writer at Microsoft but never anything as bad as a EULA! That level of drivel is reserved strictly for legal departments. Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia http://www.enochsvision.com/, http://www.bahaivision.com/ -- "Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell
RE: filmscanners: The Nikon 4000 and Genuine Fractals
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