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17 Dec 2005

...
   I have plenty
of software that runs directly off CD. I'm not
 making a copy of it to run it. Unless you're implying the
 process of reading it into memory to execute is copying it. IMHO
 that's a mighty fine line.  
 Reading it into memory is copying it.  Lawyers make a bunch of
 their money due to fine lines.

Does this imply that software in ROM does not need to be copied (in the 
legal sense) when it's run, but cashing the ROM would consitute a copy? 
Or does copying each byte in turn into an internal processor register 
count as a 'copy'..

And what is the difference between copying a program (from disk, say) 
into a computer's memory, and copying part of a book into _my_ memory 
(e.g. learning something from a book). For that matter, what is the 
difference between a computer executing a program and me 'executing' a 
recipe from a cookery book?

-tony

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