New subject: Software Licensing (Was: RE: Should I add a "Micro" PDP11/73 to t

22 Jun 2000

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  Do you have any understanding of the computer
industry?  Do you have any
 understanding of computers larger than your Windows box?  Do you even look
 at the licenses of any software you have purchased?  I'm fairly sure you
 don't remember the days when you didn't even own the computer, you rented
 it, or rented time on one. 
I have owned a computer continuously since 1976, when I built a SOL
(and I helped finish building an IMSAI the next year that was botched
by a physics professor).

Of the dozen or so computers I own, two are Windows boxen.

My physician told me to stop reading the licences, or I'd have a stroke.

The first computer I used was a CDC6500 running DualMACE at Purdue
in 1974. I checked- Purdue OWNED the computer, they did not RENT it.

...
 From there I went to a CDC6600 running Kronos 2.1 at
Indiana University; I had a computer account for each of my classes, and one given
me for
donating my services as s student consultant. Additionally, I PAID $$$
for a commercial account so that I could print large-format lineprinter
posters and sell them.

...
  Kindly take your free software whine elsewhere.  If
you want to write
 software and give it away that's your business.  If someone else wants to
 write software and sell right to use licenses that's their business. 
 Personally I both sell and give away the software I write, depending on the
...
  program. 
I wrote nothing stating that I was looking for free software. How is it
that you take not wanting to be ripped of to mean that I want something
for free?

The problem isn't that I don't understand the computer industry, it's
that the computer industry has been taken over by robber barons. It
happened during the 1980s; I recall it distinctly.

Dang, I know I'm a prima donna, but if all the prima donnas stay off
this list, I think it will get might darned quiet.

respectfully submitted,
-doug quebbeman

Software Licensing (Was: RE: Should I add a "Micro" PDP11/73 to t he Herd?)