Re: XP home use editorial

Subject: Re: XP home use editorial
Name: Connie
Date: 1/20/2002 7:41:55 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 209.86.56.93
In Reply to: XP home use editorial posted by booly
Message:

I agree with the "hobby use". If I buy a piece of software and have 3 or 4 machines running here, I feel I should be able to use it on all machines. I most certainly am not going to buy 4 different copies of the same thing to use on them. What M$ and even Game makers do not comprehend is if you pay the "price" for this software, the average Joe Blow is not going to run out and "give" it to everyone he meets. I do think if you copy it and then charge someone for it, then that's another horse. But to copy it and use it on other machines in your home ...well that's an invasion of my privacy to tell me I can't do that. Even loaning it out to a family member should be ok as long as money does not pass your hands.

One has to realize that the stuff is not cheap. So most home consumers are not going to supply it free to everyone in the neighborhood, just family and sometimes not even all of them. LOL Maybe a close friend with games etc but more than likely not an OS unless it's Linux. Which you can copy and send to friends, family, strangers etc.
Maybe this new ELX will get all the bugs out and
everyone can switch to it and then the whole problem is solved. Open source or public licenses.

I feel sorry for people with young children that buy these high priced games with Safe Disk2 on them. They need to be able to make a copy of those games, kids destroy CD's and copying those are not an easy task and in some cases next to impossible. I think that's taking it a wee bit too far with the protection thing.