From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Dean McEwan <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 HARWARE BASED.
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:48:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514184856.GA23593@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305141105410.8925@chaos>
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:22:57AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> What did I say? I never implied that leasing software was illegal.
> What I said was that software that expires after a certain time
> has certain problems, the most basic of which is that a renter
> who makes a good-faith effort to pay the rent, must be able to
> retain ("enjoy") the use of the rented property.
It's not property that you are renting, it is a right-to-use.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 13:52 Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED Dean McEwan
2003-05-14 13:49 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-14 14:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-14 14:58 ` Larry McVoy
2003-05-14 15:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-14 18:48 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-05-14 16:04 ` Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 15:12 ` Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED Tomas Szepe
2003-05-14 15:40 ` Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, Giuliano Pochini
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2003-05-14 15:34 Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED Dean McEwan
2003-05-15 10:35 Dean McEwan
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