[P1] OT: Software Licensing

[Ron Reames]

Sounds a lot like Prohibition, doesn't it?
When you have law which is almost universally ignored, all you do is 
make lawbreakers out of good people.
Prohibition didn't stop people from consuming liquor. The copyright law 
will no stop people from using software they bought in a fair way. It's 
just NOT going to happen.



Ron


On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 07:33  AM, Jack Rodgers wrote:

> Note that it is against the law to do so, unless specified in your 
> license, and you can be fined up to $50,000 and spend 5 or ten years 
> in jail for doing so. If the law were ever enforced we'd have more 
> people in jail for piracy than drug violations.