Piracy (was RE: recommend a book on Framemaker)

Subject: Piracy (was RE: recommend a book on Framemaker)
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: techwr-l digest recipients <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:14:10 -0700

John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

>Those of us that spent $750 of our own money to do the same thing might
>have a problem with the ethics of this.

Then "krupp, marguerite" <krupp_marguerite -at- emc -dot- com> wrote:

>Get rid of the copy you "borrowed" from a friend. If the friend still has
>FrameMaker installed on his/her computer, you are BOTH guilty of software
>piracy. Not a pretty scenario, highly unethical, and potentially VERY
>expensive.

Before everyone jumps to conclusion like a horde of lemmings:

When you install FrameMaker, you have the option of installing a
licensed version or an unlicensed demo version. Judging from
these options, Adobe condones, if not encourages, unlicensed
installations.

In other words, the original poster is guilty of piracy only if
his or her friend also supplied a license.


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Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
Contributing Editor, Maximum Linux
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"I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root.
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there."
-Sylvia Plath, "Elm"




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