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 HARWARE BASED.
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:35:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030515103521.706.qmail@linuxmail.org> (raw)
If you look at M$'s licences notice how it says you own a lease.
> 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.
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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2003-05-15 10:35 Dean McEwan [this message]
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2003-05-14 15:34 Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED Dean McEwan
2003-05-14 13:52 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
2003-05-14 15:12 ` Tomas Szepe
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