Does the hardware store have a right to control the use of any hammers it sold? Does the carpenter have a right to ignore the hardware store's conditions of the sale? Does the craftsman have a right to modify the hammers? Or should carpenter switch to screws and a drill?
When copyright law, patent law, trade secret law, constitutional law, state's rights (and duties), etc. is invoked by lawyers, judges, state and federal government, etc. on top of greed and other human traits, you get a murky mess. If only we could keep is a simple as those analogies. I believe, that in the end, it will take many court decisions to sort it out and I would not bet on anyone's prediction. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator Don, Hang on. The Blue Hammers are only $40 if you hammer 1000 nails a day. If you start hammering 2000 nails a day the guy from the hardware store knocks on your door and asks for another $40. He doesn't care how many nails you hammer a day with the red hammer. I recall this analogy being explained with spanners and cars. You buy a spanner for you Toyota, and everyone time you buy a better, faster car you have to pay the hardware store a few dollars more to use the spanner on it. But it's still the same freaking spanner! Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Don Williams > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator > > A carpenter goes the hardware store to buy some hammers. They are offer him > some all-round general purpose blue hammers for $40 each. He can use them to > build anything we wants. Also with the purchase of each blue hammer, he can > get a special purpose red hammer for $10 each. However, he is only allowed > to build coffee shacks with the red hammers. Later, a traveling craftsman > shows up at the carpenter's house and tells him that (for a fee) he modify > the red hammers (paint them blue), so that they could used to build almost > anything. > > How does the carpenter feel about the hardware store? About the blue > hammers? About the red hammers? About the craftsman? > > Who's right? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
