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
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2003-05-14 15:25 Dean McEwan [this message]
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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
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