[CrackMonkey] Software is a shuck

[Patrick]

This reminds me of that horrible speech made by The Plague in Hackers.

Also, I find it terribly unfair that I'm 25 years old, I own the eastern
half of Canada, and yet I still can't grow a decent moustache.


On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/SoftShuck.html
> 
> 	That's right. Legally (according to the license agreement),
> 	you pay your money to buy something, and they take your money,
> 	but they don't sell you the software. The money you pay allows
> 	you to run the software (according to their rules) but that's
> 	all it entitles you to.  You don't buy software, you buy the
> 	right to use it. That's why trading warez is illegal. Not
> 	because you're giving away your property but, according to the
> 	software companies, it was never your property to give away in
> 	the first place. Is this fair? Let's look at what a license is
> 	exactly.  "License" means special permission granted from a
> 	body of authority to do something. What we have here is
> 	software companies seating themselves on a throne. They are so
> 	high and mighty, only they can give us special permission to
> 	use their software. This kind of practice can only lead to one
> 	thing: exclusions. What if Microsoft won't license Word to
> 	someone who writes pornography? What if Martha Stewart
> 	licensed her books only to those whose dinner parties she
> 	deemed hoity-toity enough? 
> 
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