================================================ Subject: Re: Excel .... "softshare" From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Mon 11 Feb 2002 18:48:11 -0500 ================================================ That is a major reason that I didn't even consider XP. I'd rather have an evolving OS. Where I can install it on as many machines, as I want to. Instead of being servant to an operating system. That is a major reason why I switched Operating systems awhile back. I do still use windows for my grandchilds games (and the stranded Creed pager). But for everything else. I stay away from it. Jim Joe Earles wrote: >I'm not of the "two wrongs somehow make a right" mindset, but I'd love for >someone to explain to me where the right is in me buying a piece of >software, taking it home and installing it on my machine and being precluded >from making too many changes or upgrades to my hardware or else I have to >pay for it again. > >That pretty well describes the XP Home edition. If you swap out your >mainboard, hard drive, NIC and CPU guess what... BillyBob decides you have a >new PC and you get to pay to install XP again! Now if the motivation behind >that isn't greed I don't know what it is. Why, pray tell, am I restricted >from upgrading my system if I want to keep my OS? Now granted the >possibility of THE AVERAGE END USER making that many changes to one system >is next to zip, but the chances of a certified PC technician trying out new >stuff just for kicks is feasible. The notion of that same tech having >several PCs is also feasible. Now I have to pay for the OS four times to run >it on each machine on my home LAN? Look, if I do the right thing even when >I know that I can get the product for nothing that ought to afford me the >right to do with it whatever I please, so long as no one else is benefiting >from it. To spin it around to an argument that holds water here, let's say >you go out and buy a copy of Weathered. It plays fine on your PC, but if you >want to play it on your stereo's CD player you have to send Wind-Up records >$15 more...and if you want to play it in the car, again you send them $15 >for the privilege. Would that piss anyone but me off just a little? Sure, >you can make the argument that the software companies suffer when you pirate >their stuff. All right. That argument has to hold *some* merit, of course, >but I can't help but realize that there are scores upon scores of pirate >copies of the earlier (9x/Me/NT/2K) operating systems out there and Bill >Gates continues to be one of the richest men if not still THE richest man on >planet earth. Simply put, he doesn't have to worry about people pirating >software because he'll never have the time to spend all the money he has >now. The motivation behind the one user, one license thing is nothing more >than greed and that, as far as I'm concerned, is on the same level as the >one who pirates the software. Are the software developers worthy to make >profits for their effort? Absolutely. But once they have my money, what >business is it of theirs what I do with the product? This question and the >lack of a logical and forthright answer is the biggest motivation behind >software piracy. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Debbi" >To: >Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:23 PM >Subject: Re: Excel, registries and changing favorite Creed song (Weathered >album) > > >>Doesn't make it right. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Creed Discussion List [mailto:CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM] On >>Behalf Of Tim Johnson >>Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 8:22 PM >>To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM >>Subject: Re: Excel, registries and changing favorite Creed song >>(Weathered album) >> >> >>Yeah i know but it's kinda like i don't care cause everyone knows that >>people do it >> >>>I wasn't bothered by the postings. But figured that >posting attempts >>>at copyright violations, to the list. Would be just as >wise, as >>>talking about law violations, in front of an officer. >>> >>To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, >>visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp >> >>To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, >> >visit: > >>http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp >> > >To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: >http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > -- Ye've also got to remember that ... respectable people do the most astonishin' things to preserve their respectability. Thank God I'm not respectable. -- Ruthven Campbell Todd To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp