From: "Dean McEwan" <dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org>
To: lm@bitmover.com, "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARDWARE BASED.
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:25:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514152515.25138.qmail@linuxmail.org> (raw)
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:36:43AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Basically, in many states in the USA, you can't sell or
> > lease something that will become worthless or unusable if
> > the seller or leasor no longer exists.
>
> CAD software is mostly leased these days. That would seem to contradict
> your position. Can you quote some laws which say that leasing software
> is illegal?
Not only that but you can charge less :-)
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
--
______________________________________________
http://www.linuxmail.org/
Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr
Powered by Outblaze
next reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 15:25 Dean McEwan [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-14 15:33 Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARDWARE BASED Dean McEwan
2003-05-14 16:04 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-14 15:18 Dean McEwan
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20030514152515.25138.qmail@linuxmail.org \
--to=dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lm@bitmover.com \
--cc=root@chaos.analogic.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.